Reading pictures

20.11.17

Liquor Shop, Detroit, MI, 2017

Man in a liquor shop.

(Thanks to Anne Marie Weber that teached me a lot during this trip

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-marie-weber-9577433b/)

A night in Las Vegas

18.11.17

Detroit, try to build a new city

"My name is Zack.

I am part of a community of people who reuse and recycle to turn abandoned houses into homes.

We survive of the land by gardening and gathering wood for warmth.

We enhance our community with art, produce, and a non profit bike shop"

16.11.17

Sick of Working Like Donkeys Hilton Workers Fight for A Union

Stamford, Connecticut.

This week, workers at Hilton Hotel visited the manager’s office to deliver a cake decorated with the words, “Felicidades Union 217” (Congratulations Union 217),

celebrating their petition for a union.

Last week I had the chance to shoot the preparation of the petition.

It was an emotional day for me.

Although rooms routinely go for over $200 a night, the non-union housekeepers are forced to clean close to 30 rooms per day for about $11 an hour. This is the case workers for at the Hilton, but not for Hyatt housekeepers who unionized with UNITE HERE three years ago and are contracted to 16 rooms per day at around $16 hourly. The Hyatt workers have put in the work to support the workers and raise standards at the Hilton, knowing they will be stronger once the number of union hotels in the area doubles.

Housekeepers are not the only ones overworked and underpaid; kitchen workers are chronically understaffed and room service runners prep food, while banquet servers wash dishes, and the front desk settle tens of thousands a dollars a day for a little over minimum wage. Health care plans available to workers cost over $100 per week for families, reducing weekly pay stubs to as low as $75. Housekeeper Anna Boussiquot describes “going home after long days with a crooked back that remains crooked for hours.” Now, the Hilton workers stand tall as they unite against their boss.

Source : http://www.leftvoice.org/Sick-of-Working-Like-Donkeys-Hilton-Workers-Fight-for-A-Union

Mr Fleming in 8 Mile Road

8 Mile road has long served as a de facto cultural dividing line between the predominantly poor black city and its wealthier, predominantly white northern suburbs. The perception of 8 Mile as the chief dividing line between racial groups and classes persists, in part because the suburban counties of Oakland and Macomb remain, on the whole, significantly whiter and more prosperous than the city of Detroit.However, in recent years increasing numbers of whites have moved into Detroit, especially around the downtown area, and other neighborhoods in the region have become more ethnically diverse as well.

With Barbara and Anne-Marie, we had the chance to meet Mr "Fleming",

an autentic character of this road.