Hotel workers strike for 3rd day
Workers from three hotels are holding a third consecutive strike day Saturday, using the tourism season to exert extra pressure on their employers.
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Sal 05:31 on 2024-08-11 Permalink
Extort? That is very strong verb with extremely negative connotations. Have you inquired as to what it being offered and what is being asked??
Kate 08:29 on 2024-08-11 Permalink
If you reread my post, you will see I never used that word.
Exerting pressure merely means the union is taking advantage of the pressure of tourism season as leverage. It does not mean, as the Wiktionary defines extorting, “to take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.”