This is one of two articles from Hawaiian hotel workers. Read the other, “At World’s Largest Hilton, Workers Fight for Jobs, Daily Cleaning,” here. “Did you see Hilton is getting rid of workers permanently?” Jungmin Kim, my co-worker, came running to ask me before I could even get to the front desk. Hilton’s CEO had told …
Hawaiian Hilton Workers Fear Permanent Layoffs As Recall Rights Expiration Nears Read More »
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was supposed to keep small businesses from laying off workers during the coronavirus pandemic. (Disclosure: Kos Media received a Paycheck Protection Program loan.) It hasn’t always worked out that way. Trump and Kushner businesses got loans, as did predatory payday lenders, but many of the businesses that needed the loans most were left out. UNITE HERE, …
Hotel workers union UNITE HERE isn’t resting on its laurels after winning a contract fight with the giant Marriott chain late last year. The union is pursuing new organizing efforts, including a push in Baltimore for a first contract covering some 145 newly unionized members there, according to Vikas Mohite, a full-time Marriott employee and active rank-and-file union …
These Hotel Workers Say They Shouldn’t Have to Work Multiple Jobs to Make Ends Meet Read More »
Hawaii hotel workers, who went on strike in early October, finally reached a deal on their contract. After 51 days of striking, workers have won higher wages as well as more funding for health care and pensions. The contract will provide for $6 per-hour increases in wages and benefits over four years, which is the …
After nearly 2 months on strike, Hawaii workers secure better contract Read More »
Thousands of Marriott hotel workers in Hawaii say they want better wages, sexual harassment protections, and a promise not to be replaced by automation. They have been on strike for more than a week, but it doesn’t appear the strike will end anytime soon. Hotel workers who are members of Unite Here Local 5 have …
Hawaiian hotel workers want better pay for state’s high cost of living Read More »
Thousands of Marriott hotel workers are on strike in eight U.S. cities in a campaign with the slogan “one job should be enough.” The workers’ union points out that Marriott’s profits have risen by 279 percent since the great recession, while worker pay has gone up only seven percent. “As the largest hotel employer in the world, Marriott can …
‘One job should be enough,’ striking Marriott workers say Read More »
Thousands of Chicago hotel workers continued their strike for the sixth day Wednesday, primarily to demand a year-round health insurance guarantee. The union said workers also want higher wages, more sick days, and more manageable workloads, the Associated Press reported. Their contracts, which covered 6,000 employees, expired on August 30. The number of hotel workers …
Chicago hotel strike enters sixth day, as workers demand year-round health insurance Read More »
If you were lamenting that Labor Day’s current day association with leisure has obfuscated the true meaning of the holiday—don’t despair because the working people of Boulder Station Hotel & Casino got together over the Labor Day weekend and after a long battle said, “Union Yes!” More than 570 Boulder Station workers will now enjoy …
Working People Give a Bold Union Yes in Las Vegas Read More »
The ‘Justice for Janitors’ firebrand on the struggle to unionize: ‘I’m not invisible anymore. I’m never going to be.’ Monica Martinez-Vargas knows what it’s like to be invisible. For much of her career, she worked two shifts in downtown Denver – one cleaning hotel rooms and the other cleaning office buildings. In the mornings, …
More than a dozen low-level hotel workers in Indianapolis have filed a class-action lawsuit against ten of the city’s hotels and a labor staffing agency, claiming they were routinely cheated out of pay with the knowledge of hotel management. The workers — most of them Hispanic immigrants employed as housekeepers, dishwashers and bussers — say …
Hotel Workers Stiffed Millions In Wages, Lawsuit Alleges Read More »
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
