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 LOS ANGELES // June 18, 2009 1,000 Tourism Workers Take to the Streets at LAX to Launch Campaign as Height of the Los Angeles Tourist Season Approaches Union Contract Expirations Loom for 10,000 Los Angeles Hotel and Tourism Workers--Workers Demand Good Jobs to Help Rebuild the Los Angeles Economy
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SAN FRANCISCO //
June 18, 2009 Hotel housekeeper has challenging role in vital industry Margarita Aldama starts her working day by loading her cart up with piles of linens, cleaning supplies, soaps and shampoos.
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ANCHORAGE //
June 17, 2009 Anchorage Hilton's union employees institute a boycott The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 878, which represents some 200 Hilton employees, announced that it had overwhelmingly voted to place their hotel under boycott on April 20, when they had a rally outside of the hotel.
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CHICAGO //
June 16, 2009 Congress Hotel workers mark sixth anniversary of strike
The rally was both a celebration of the strike's persistence and a lament of stalled negotiations with hotel owners and representatives. Among the strikers' supporters were Gov. Pat Quinn, state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and aldermen Bob Fioretti and Ricardo Munoz. Each was present and spoke at the protest. "This hotel has not treated its workers right" Quinn yelled from a podium between Michigan Avenue traffic and the hotel's lower east floors. "We will have justice."
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SAN DIEGO //
July 16, 2008 San Diego Hotel Workers and LGBT Community Boycott Manchester Hyatt! Hotel Workers and LGBT community unite to fight discrimination against gays and lesbians and workers.On July 10th, UNITE HERE and LGBT leaders announced a full-scale boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego. The coalition is calling for Hyatt to take action to correct a record of discrimination against workers at the hotel. Manchester’s Hyatt forces housekeepers to clean more rooms than housekeepers at other some Hyatt hotels, and workers at the Manchester Hyatt have no job security if the hotel is sold. The owner of the hotel Douglas Manchester, has also funded discrimination against the LGBT community. Manchester donated $125,000 to a political committee supporting Proposition 8, a November ballot initiative in California that seeks to make it illegal for loving gay and lesbian couples to marry. Hyatt should fire Manchester for Discrimination!
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Chi Town Daily News--Hundreds of protesters marked the sixth anniversary of a strike over labor conditions at The Congress Plaza Hotel and Convention Center on Monday, stretching a picket line down a block-long stretch of South Michigan Avenue. On June 15, 2003, almost six months after their contracts expired, workers at the Congress Hotel went on strike. Union organizers say hotel management cut wages, stopped paying employee health-care premiums and demanded the right to subcontract its unionized workforce.
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