HOTEL EMPLOYEES (HERE)
Wilhelm Imposes Trusteeship on Hawaiian Local where Int'l VP Defeated
The Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Int'l Union placed HERE
Local 5 Feb. 26 into trusteeship after a dispute between a top boss and
the executive board prevented the negotiation of contracts covering hotel
employees in Hawaii. HERE boss John Wilhelm
appointed Sherri Chiesa, HERE's western regional director, to run the local.
The trouble arose after Eric Gill, a kitchen steward at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, defeated longtime incumbent secretary-treasurer Tony Rutledge by several dozen votes in an election held last spring. The majority of executive board members who were elected had run with Rutledge. Since the election, Gill and the board have been at odds. Since his defeat, Rutledge has kept his post as a HERE int'l vice president, to which he was elected at HERE's 1996 convention. [BNA 3/2/01]
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