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Hotel Workers Rising Campaign Videos

Hotel Workers Rising
Get a glimpse of hotel workers' lives in this inspiring video about the national Hotel Workers Rising movement. Footage of rallies and picketlines from New York to Los Angeles features hotel workers and how they're coming together for better working conditions and a chance at the American dream. Watch the video

Hotel Workers Rising Kickoff Tour
Earlier this year, hotel workers across the U.S. and Canada came together to launch our exciting campaign. Senator John Edwards, actor Danny Glover, and San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom helped kick up the volume. The video, produced by David Koff, presents highlights of the February 2006 launch tour. Hotel workers talk of their struggle for better conditions and how UNITE HERE has inspired them to stand up for their rights. One says, “We are humble hotel workers, we work hard for a living, but we have friends in high places.” Watch the video

Hotel Workers Rising Campaign Song

Right Here, Right Now
Hit play below to listen to the original upbeat song from the Hotel Workers Rising campaign.

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Quick Facts:

• Today, 80% of jobs in the U.S. and Canada are in the service sector. Half of low-paying job categories are in hotels and restaurants.

• 35% of the working poor in the U.S.
work full-time.

• 59% don’t receive health insurance
from work.

• The more union hotels there are in a city, the more hotel workers are paid. In cities with few union hotels, workers are paid just $7 an hour. In cities with mostly union hotels, that rate more than doubles, to $19 an hour.