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Legislators Pledge To Honor Hilton Boycott

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Alaska Capitol Building. By Gillfoto. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo by Gillfoto (Own work) CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons

Members of the Alaska State Legislature wrote to the owner of the Hilton Anchorage regarding the hotel’s recently settled State of Alaska office of Occupational Safety and Health citations and pledge to honor the ongoing worker-called boycott of the hotel. Signatories are Senator Bill Wielechowski (D–H), Senator Johnny Ellis (D–J), House Minority Leader Chris Tuck (D–23), Representative Scott Kawasaki (D–1), Representative Max Gruenberg (D–16), Representative Andrew Josephson (D–17), and Representative Matt Claman (D–21). Click here to download their letters to William Yung III, president of the Columbia Sussex Corporation in Kentucky.

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