Hotel union bans liquor
PA Auckland New Zealand hotel workers are fighting the overseas practice of automatically supplying all hotel rooms with liquor because they say that it allows under-age drinking.
The Hotel Workers’ national secretary (Mr L. Short) said that members of a junior girls’ softball team had recently been found drinking liquor from refrigerators in their rooms in a New Plymouth hotel. Most of the girls had been under 16.
Guestroom refrigerators were automatically stocked daily with 15 bottles, including whisky, gin. rum,
brandy, bourbon, vodka, and beer. Guests paid for any liquor consumed by filling in an “honesty card” On departure. The Hotel Workers’ Federation had now instructed housemaids not to restock
the refrigerators, Mr Short said. The federation would fight the practice because as well as “pushing liquor at guests in a completely uncontrolled and unsupervised manner” it also reduced work hours for room-service stewards and house bartenders.
Hotels adopting tho practice should be prosecuted for supplying minors with liquor, Mr Short said.
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