Quote of the Day

“Ever since banks lent all that money to Columbia Sussex to buy my hotel, my paycheck is smaller, I don’t qualify for health insurance anymore, and my co-workers are laid off.” — Baltimore Sheraton laundress Mary Lee Hinant. Her hotel is one of eight which are the subject of a Unite-Here and AFL-CIO boycott. Five of the eight boycotted hotels were part of a $1.1 billion acquisition which shortly preceded Columbia Sussex’s doomed purchase of Aztar Corp., parent of the Tropicana Las Vegas.