12 Quotes by Joe McInerney

There are more women being accepted and graduating from college today, whether it be the hotel schools or law schools or medical schools, than ever before. It's over 50 percent.

We have provided competitive salaries, affordable wages and good pensions to our employees and remain committed to do that.

We've seen the end of the changing of the beds for a considerable period because it isn't cheap.

Our new site is a one-stop resource, where users can find information about the competitive wages and generous benefits that hotels provide to employees as well as information on UNITE HERE's real goal - to use upcoming labor negotiations to grow its declining membership. So whether you are a reporter working on a story, a meeting planner organizing a conference, or a guest planning your next visit, we hope you use our new Web site as a resource for information.

I think it will be the start of a trend.

We are not against unionization. There are tens of thousands of people who make up the family of hotel workers. Some are union members and some are not, and that's fine with us. But the decision whether or not to join a union is an important one. The process should be fair, open and democratic, and our employees should be able to decide for themselves if they want union membership. It is their job. It is their life. It should be their choice.

Women are becoming a buying force in America so that's why the hotel companies are catering to women.

You have to keep up with what your customer wants in the room. You have to have what they have at home, only more so.

It's left up to the discretion of the hotel.