The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will reopen its doors to the public next week after its workers voted to ratify a new agreement. The AGO has been closed since March 26, when 400 workers, represented by OPSEU/SEFPO Local 535, rejected the museum's initial offer and walked off the job. Earlier this week, the union announced that it reached a tentative deal with the AGO following a 16-hour bargaining. In a statement on Friday, OPSEU/SEFPO Local 535 revealed that 85 per cent of the workers...
Search engine giant Google has fired nearly 30 of its US employees after they were arrested for staging sits-ins at the company's offices to protest its contract with the Israeli government
On a recent afternoon, sneakered tourists streamed out of the various hotels located along a quiet stretch of Jamaica, Queens. The Radisson, a Hampton Inn, a Residence Inn by Marriott, and erstwhile JFK Hilton, just a stone's throw from JFK Airport, represent the future of affordable housing in the city, as well as what is perhaps a missed opportunity. Months of interior demolition work is concluding at the 350-room Hilton property on 135th Avenue, just east of the Van Wyck Expressway. A...
Rendering of the interior garden planned for the former JFK Hilton, near the airport in Queens. It's being converted into affordable housing. The former JFK Hilton is being transformed into affordable housing; project admirers wish there were more projects like it. [ more › ]
Edinburgh’s hotel sector seems to be growing all the time. Several new hotels have arrived on the scene in recent months, including Hearts’ first-of-its-kind Tynecastle Park Hotel inside the club’s stadium. Edinburgh’s Waldorf Astoria - better known as The Caley Hotel - changed hands for £85 million. Industry experts expect the Capital to remain the highest performing hotel market outside of London in 2024. And there are more hotels being built, including several in hospitality hotspots like...
Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City Authored by Fred Roeder via RealClearMarkets, On a Friday night in March 2011, I stayed at an upscale W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City for $124. That hotel later became The Maxwell, but sadly it didn’t survive the pandemic and is now permanently closed. Today the average hotel stay in that same neighborhood costs between $400 and $500 on a Friday night. The surge in hotel prices, particularly for upmarket accommodations,...
2022 coverage of Radisson announcing closure DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) -- A new "full service" hotel could be coming to downtown Dayton. The Montgomery County Convention Facilities Authority proposed a new hotel to be constructed adjacent to the Dayton Convention Center. A release says the MCCFA would like the hotel to sit on S. []
The University of California, San Diego, is coming up with creative ways to implement a form of affirmative action for admittance into its engineering programs. Affirmative action was illegal in California long before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that colleges and universities could no longer consider an applicant’s race when admitting him or […]
Teachers in Youngstown City Schools are voting on a new contract Friday.
Members of Windsor-based Unifor Local 240 and Toronto-based Unifor Local 673 ratified a new three-year contract with GreenShield Canada on Wednesday. The 580 Windsor workers voted 92 per cent in favour while 91 per cent of the 24 Toronto workers approved the deal. Workers walked off the job March 1 and were on the picket […]
The Mediterranean Ecologist Group (GEM) have taken legal action by appealing to the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) regarding plans to construct a four-star hotel with 30 rooms and a swimming pool facing Genoveses Bay in Cabo de Gata-Nijar. They’ve asked the court to halt the project while its environmental authorisation is reviewed. […]
California's New Minimum Wage: A Cure That Exacerbates The Sickness Via SchiffGold.com, The solution to a problem shouldn’t make the problem worse. But apparently, California’s policy makers missed that memo. On April 1st, the state instituted a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, the highest in the US. With California’s absurdly high cost of living, the policy appeared to make life more manageable for low-income residents. Unfortunately, as the adage goes, “If it sounds...