the boycott business

Music: Einstürzende Neubauten: Ende Neu (1998)

Although I'm desperately compelled to blog about LiLo's profane middle finger in court yesterday, a higher duty calls. As most of Rosechron's readers know, the conference hotel of my national professional organization, the National Communication Association, is currently under a boycott urged by the San Francisco area's service worker union. The convention is not until next November, however, there is no encouraging news. It doesn't seem likely the union and hotel management will come to an agreement over a contract by then.

Those readers who are members of NCA may not know that the national office has secured an alternative space for panels. Of course, if you tried to find this page by going to the NCA website, good luck. Fortunately I have hot-linked it for you here. This page details that panels can be moved to rooms at San Francisco State university, apparently just three blocks away from the convention hotel. To move your panel, all participants, including chairs and respondents, must sign this form. If you have difficulty with getting the form link to work, you can email me, as I have a PDF copy I can send you.

The deadline for submitting a panel shift is October 15th. I would encourage all of you who feel weird violating the boycott request to start the process now.