Hundreds of visitors in town for the Baptist Convention are left without A\C and hotel support staff as the Hotel employees walkout after not getting paid.


On the day when Detroit swells with people from the National Baptist Convention and the annual Detroit fireworks, guests at the former Pontchartrain Hotel, which is now the Detroit Riverside Hotel, are checking out in the droves.

Guests are complaining that there is no air conditioning -- on the hottest day of the year in Detroit – and some guests have complained about not having fresh towels, clean sheets or in some cases, electricity...

...However, the hotel has recently fallen on hard times and most of the employees said they have not gotten paid since May.

That's why they are sitting in the lobby and refuse to work until they get their paychecks.

In the meantime, the hotel is not being serviced. Guests have said they have tried to contact the hotel manager for several days.
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