The Petaluma Sheraton Story

Petaluma Argus Courier
May 9, 2007

The Sheraton Petaluma Hotel recently hosted a much-acclaimed Artisan Cheese Festival attracting more than a thousand visitors. The Sheraton story is an important chapter in the emergence of a new labor movement in California, which is seeking to organize low-wage and immigrant workers and to create partnerships for career mobility in traditionally low-wage industries.

A recent report," The Limits of Prosperity," by New Economy, Working Solutions (NEWS) analyzed the dramatic increase of income inequality in the North Bay over the last two decades and the emergence of an 'hourglass economy,' with job growth concentrated at the top and bottom of the labor market while the middle is contracting--particularly as the crash of the telecommunications

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