Unions Picket Outside Trump's Hotel in Washington DC

By teleSUR

15 October 16

Trump and the hotel management have refused to recognize the vote of roughly 500 workers who voted to organize.

undreds of workers protested outside Donald Trump’s newly-opened hotel in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to demand he recognize and negotiate with the union at Las Vegas' Trump International Hotel.

Workers at the Las Vegas hotel, which is half-owned by the Republican presidential candidate, voted to organize in Dec. 2015 and the union was recognized by the National Labor Relations Board earlier this year.

However, Trump and the hotel management have refused to recognize the vote of roughly 500 workers, saying it was “anything but free and fair.”

Workers representing some of the country’s largest labor unions, including the AFL-CIO, CWA, AFSCME, and UNITE Here were holding banners and chanting: “What do we want? Contract! When do we want it? Now!”

Similar pickets have been organized also outside Trump hotels in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Honolulu.

During his polemical presidential campaign, Trump has shown his disdain for unions, saying that wages are “too high.”

With just weeks to go until Election Day on Nov. 8, polls show Trump is losing, with a widening gap between he and his Democratic Party rival, Hillary Clinton. His numbers dropped following the revelations of a lewd tape in which he boasted about sexually assaulting women.