www.occupyprinceton.net...As the Princeton Trustees gathered for a meeting on Friday, Dec. 16th, Occupy Princeton (www.occupyprinceton.net) and Princeton for Worker Rights spoke out against HEI Hospitality's unethical business practices and urged Princeton University to follow Yale and Brown's lead in terminating investments in the corporation. /nIn an industry that delivers high luxury to its guests, HEI workers struggle to make ends meet. They work long hours performing jobs that tax their health, even while many are unable to afford health plans offered to them. And when they organize collectively, workers are often confronted with sophisticated campaigns of coercion and litigation, designed to deter them from having a say in the decisions that affect them./nFull script:
Parents and prospective students,
Princeton may use your tuition dollars to fund sweatshop hotels that abuse their workers. Princeton's investment in HEI Hospitality allows it to profit off of the exploitation of workers. Yale and Brown have decided not to reinvest in HEI Hospitality. Princeton should do the same. Princeton's motto is, "In the nation's service." Princeton's trustees are not in the nation's service. They are in the service of sweatshops. In whose service will you be?/nSee also: http://www.occupyprinceton.net/?p=123
For more information on HEI workers' struggle: http://www.heiworkersrising.org

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