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CALDWELL FROM PAGE SEVEN whether the company feels as the union does that if Marriott can beat "the" union at its- hotel at the airport, it can also operate a non-union hotel in. Times Square. Hollander left that issue to corporate officers in Washington and yesterday, the word that came back from Washington was that there is no connection. "It's an employes' decision," Brent Stanley of Marriott's employe relations department said. "If the employes want the union and they vote for it, then that is their legal right We can't say no union." "This is the test case," Jorge Rodriguez, thei organizer said.

"That's why I say that the stakes are high." Not far from the LaGuardia Marriott there is a Holiday Inn and not far from Holiday Inn, a Sheraton Hotel. "Both are unionized," Rodriguez; said. "But not Marriott and if they can get away' with it here, they will try and do the same thing in' midtown." The union has a right to conduct its business." He took a sheet of paper off his desk. At the top, in bold letters, it said "guarantee of fair treatment" and it was a long statement from Marriott management to employes. "No member of management is too busy to hear problems or complaints of any employe," bold letters in the middle of the paper read.

"Any employe that has a problem can take it all the way to John Marriott," Hollander said. He mentioned a meeting he had with his employes. He said they were all gathered in a room and he asked whom the hotel considered the most important people. "I said to them, 'Is it the guests? and they all raised their hands. And I told them no, it wasnt the guests.

It's the employes. Our position is that if we' have good, happy employes that we know they will take care of the guests." One of the arguments the union uses against Marriott is a tax abatement it has received from the city The union says because of Marriott's nonunion stance, it should not have been given a tax abatement when the hotel at the airport was built "There is nothing unusual about that," Hollander said. "Tax breaks are not tied to union activity. And besides, the tax abatement is only for a certain amount of time." Michael Hollander would not comment on he said. "Here, it's more difficult With the split shifts and all, it's so diffuse." "They (Marriott) are so slick," Jorge Rodriguez said.

"They don't give you the issues to work off of. A lot of people I talk to say they never earned so much. They don't realize that they are being paid well now ($7.70 an hour for housekeepers) because the union surrounds them." Rodriguez is short, with dark hair and muscular arms. He started out as an organizer in the '60s at an iron factory in Omaha. "It was just from the things I saw in there (the iron factory)," he said.

"The union was the only way to fight back." "The economic crisis," Carlyn Meyer said. "That's the difference now. People are so scared of losing their jobs that they are afraid to sign up for the union. Once we break the back of that fear, then it will get better." She has brown hair and her face is filled with youth. She learned her organizing with Local 1199, unionizing clothing workers.

The LaGuardia Marriott is a cream-colored building that rises from a ravine off Ditmars Blvd. in Queens. The three organizers do not go into the hotel. They work on a windy hill behind the hotel, at Mccftica rviaiiu wiwps Warsaw (UPI) A plague of Colorado beetles, encouraged by mild weather, is threatening to destroy Poland's potato and tomato crops, the official news agency PAP reported yesterday. the top of an asphalt ramp that leads to an employe entrance, and as each shift ends and another begins, they put their literature into the hands of the workers.

"You wouldn't believchow cold it was out here in the wintertime," Spearman said. "They (management) see us standing out here and they laugh and say, 'Good luck, but the bottom line is the vote." PICKVOUR1 "When will the union ask for a vote?" he was asked. "We're not ready yet," he said. "We have to be sure because if we lose, that means waiting for at least another year. But a lot of people have signed our cards.

We can't say how many but we've got a lot of people." IN THE MORNING YESTERDAY, Michael Hoi 1 I ANT I lander, who is general manager of the LaGuardia Marriott, sat in his office on the basement level of the I Off fi? I I 1 I ift POPS, hotel and talked about the organizing effort. "It's the employes' decision," he said. "We're just trying to run a good, first-class hotel." Michael Hollander grew up in Queens, in Forest Hills, and yesterday he said that the union organizers posed no problem. "At Thanksgiving, we gave all of our people turkeys and when we did, we went out I I I I Attiv Or there and gave turkeys to them (the organizers) 1 A I I JR. POPS LEGAL NOTfCE A musical time of it While more than a million New Yorkers viewed the Brooklyn Bridge festivities outdoors last night, others celebrated by attending the Daily News All-City High School Band and Talent Unlimited High School Chorus at Carnegie Hall.

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