{"id":6958,"date":"2009-07-20T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2009-07-20T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:32:14","slug":"union-protest-causes-havoc-in-hotel-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/union-protest-causes-havoc-in-hotel-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Union protest causes havoc in hotel lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1660407\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A union protest created havoc for guests checking into the Courtyard by Marriott Thursday, and the union leader behind it warned of more disruptions if the hotel&#8217;s management doesn&#8217;t return to the bargaining table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since we&#8217;re coming into the busy season, we&#8217;re planning stepped-up protests in the coming weeks,&#8221; said Bruce Raynor, president of the Workers United union.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 40 executive members of the union took over the Victoria Avenue hotel&#8217;s lobby in a bid to get management&#8217;s attention and to temporarily disrupt the hotel&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<p>They walked in at about 5:15 p. m., a time many guests were checking in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A union protest created havoc for guests checking into the Courtyard by Marriott Thursday, and the union leader behind it warned of more disruptions if the hotel&#8217;s management doesn&#8217;t return to the bargaining table. &#8220;Since we&#8217;re coming into the busy season, we&#8217;re planning stepped-up protests in the coming weeks,&#8221; said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[1757,549,115,678,1756,141,1755],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-hotels","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-bruce-raynor","tag-courtyard-by-marriott","tag-marriott","tag-marriott-courtyard","tag-union","tag-victoria-ave","tag-workers-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}