The Mixer, November, 2007 UNITE HERE community organizers have been hard at work at Local 40’s offices coordinating efforts to generate increased public awareness and support for hotel workers’ issues as bargaining continues at three major hotels in the lower mainland. By networking in the local community with faith-based organizations, political representatives and our union brothers and sisters in the labour movement, hotel workers currently negotiating for a new contract are being supported through public awareness strategies that are intended to enhance their bargaining efforts. The union’s community organizers are utilizing a number of proven and successful methods of generating attention on the hotel workers’ issues. Some of these methods include taking opportunities at local meetings, such as labour councils, to speak out about the struggles hotel workers are facing in this current round of bargaining. These efforts have been extended to include business forums as well as direct communication with our political representatives to ensure they know what is happening to hotel workers in their communities. Pledge forms have also been widely distributed, asking supporters to stand together with the hotel workers as they continue their negotiations and to let these employers know where the support lies in the community. | 
