Five day hunger strike in solidarity with nine hotel workers facing firing after being subjected to E-Verify process

SAN DIEGO - Hotel workers and their allies launched a five-day hunger strike on Friday, April 8 to protest the unfair use of E-verify by the Hilton Mission Valley, amid hotel workers' year-long effort to organize a union. 

The sudden use of E-verify came in late March when a new management company took over the hotel and voluntarily subjected the hotel workers to the system. Hotel workers, clergy and community activists rallied at the launch of the hunger strike on Friday calling the hotel’s plan to fire the nine long-time hotel employees who the system flagged unfair.

Hotel managers told the nine employees they had until Monday, April 8 or Tuesday, April 9 to fix problems with paperwork or face termination.

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