According to one poster at Boston.com's comments thread *please note I haven't verified this yet*--looks like SEIU was on the verge of unionizing staff. If that is correct, then the mass firing may possibly be considered illegal anti-union activity. I'm not an expert on that part of the law, nor do I have enough of the inside details to know for sure. But I have been part of the larger SEIU universe for a while, so I may be able to get more info through the grapevine.

I know we can't move the 2010, but given the outpouring of support for the fired housekeeping staff in just hours, we may not HAVE to move 2011. I think some executive somewhere might find himself on the unemployment line after generating such bad PR.