On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Naslund, Steve <SNaslund@medline.com> wrote:
The trick is that there is no "right to work" if you are a guest at the hotel. You have no right to work on their property without their consent. In reality, the hotels do not want union headaches so that is the way it goes.
IIRC when the Democatic National Convention was held in Denver in 2008, they had to strike a special deal with the venue to bring in union labor instead of the normal workers because they couldn't find a suitable place that was already union. Conversely, when I went to IETF in Minneapolis a few years ago the networking folks simply took over the hotel network for the week. IETF attendee or not, you got wired Internet in your room courtesy of the conference. As I understand it, they convinced the hotel with the simple expedient of paying what they would ordinarily earn from a week's Internet charges. My point is that blaming union contracts or union anything for being unable to find a place to hold a convention where you can implement the network you want to implement is nonsense. NANOG, ARIN and IETF conferences have all somehow managed to implement their own effective networks. Even in union towns. If Worldcon's site selection committee can't find a suitable host, that's their deficiency. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004