Hotel Union Launches Program to Warn Planners of Possible Labor Disputes

Unite Here, the country's largest hotel workers' union, announced the start of a new organization to alert planners of hotels with potential labor disputes.

Informed Meetings Exchange, or Inmex, was unveiled June 28 and has drawn more than 100 subscribers representing more than $200 million in annual hotel expenditures, union officials said. Members include the NAACP, Sierra Club and San Jose Convention & Visitors Bureau.

"We are providing groups and associations on a wide scale the information they need to determine whether a particular hotel company is taking a positive or negative approach toward employees," said UNITE HERE leader John Wilhelm. "We think the impact on the hotel industry over time will be huge."

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