tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186587935097536129.post4893868790408724264..comments2023-04-01T06:34:38.141-05:00Comments on Hyde Park Progress: Unite HERE Drops Jobs, Picks Up Architectural Criticismchicago pophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17055796523227869734noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186587935097536129.post-34546714409375642872008-10-16T20:49:00.000-05:002008-10-16T20:49:00.000-05:00"Morsbach insists that they...only object to this ..."Morsbach insists that they...only object to this hotel plan, not to all future hotel plans."<BR/><BR/>What future hotel? A hotel that's no more than 20 feet tall, so Morsbach can't see it over the railroad embankment, and it won't block any Vista Homes vistas? A hotel that will offer free shuttle service within 100 miles, because it won't allow guests to bring cars? A hotel that will look exactly like the Blackstone? Or Cobb Hall? Or the (limestone) Point? One can only imagine what the Fighting 39ers will find to their liking.Richard Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773215580457414540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186587935097536129.post-85978386703160994132008-10-16T16:39:00.000-05:002008-10-16T16:39:00.000-05:00It's interesting that the union stuff is completel...It's interesting that the union stuff is completely absent in most of the Big Poobah's letters. They usually mention it as an appendage to a preceding list, "labor related issues". It's not what our teetotalers care about.<BR/><BR/>But it's not clear what they DO care about. This week Dr. Rechtschaffen claims that the Fighting 39ers are using the nuclear option while fully aware of the potential consequences to all future development at that site, while 2 columns over (across Richard Gill's lone and refreshing dissent) Morsbach insists that the they are NOT using the nuclear option and only object to this hotel plan, not to all future hotel plans.<BR/><BR/>I suppose it would be too much for these folks to agree among themselves about what they are doing.chicago pophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17055796523227869734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186587935097536129.post-64440400486502890252008-10-16T15:24:00.000-05:002008-10-16T15:24:00.000-05:00Even if Unite Here officials realize that their pr...Even if Unite Here officials realize that their present course does harm to job prospects for union members and potential members, it is unlikely they will admit the mistake and lose face. They seem to have convinced their own members that killing jobs is somehow to workers' advantage. What hypocrisy on the part of the union leadership. What a shame for the membership. What a shame for people who need jobs.<BR/><BR/>Another hypocrisy in all this is the continuing outcry against the Hyde Park urban renewal of the 1960s. Actually, the anti-development people revel in what they call the urban renewal's blandness and emptiness. They say they want the vibrant commercial Hyde Park of the 1950s, yet they fight tooth and nail against any efforts to bring vitality to the neighborhood. Most of them probably can't even remember the pre-urban renewal community that they claim to miss. They are not only used to having nothing around them, they love it that way.Richard Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773215580457414540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186587935097536129.post-69514227351956681052008-10-16T10:19:00.000-05:002008-10-16T10:19:00.000-05:00I am very surprised UNITE HERE is driving jobs awa...I am very surprised UNITE HERE is driving jobs away because President Obama has promised to sign the check card bill that allows unions to get a majority of workers to sign cards asking for a union election. If they get enough cards, they get a union. So they are actually hurting themselves through supporting this process. All they have to do is wait for the hotel to be built and then work to get enough workers to sign cards. <BR/><BR/>What a bunch of chuckleheads.edjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01593866936717576973noreply@blogger.com