For years, this hotel has provided good, family-supporting jobs, living-wage jobs.
Kiran and Elisa have worked in this hotel for years. They are women who have worked in this hotel for 40 years and would go back tomorrow if they could. This is a very long-term group of workers, and they've stayed in their jobs because they're good jobs. What the hotel owner wants to do is to terminate most of the workers—they have already terminated most of the staff—and to replace them with folks at minimum wage. The owner also wants to get rid of their union health benefits, eliminate a pension and drastically roll back any sort of economic gains that have been made over the years; and that's not right. We're concerned that the government has not listened to what's happening here, is not acting and is continuing to roll over their stay at this particular hotel. There are other hotels in the area they could be using. They don't have to be using this one.