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☆ Los Angeles Hotel Employees Return to Work but Warn of Additional Strikes
  + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Jill Cowan | More About Jill Cowan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Business groups say that asking employers to shoulder the burdens of California’s housing crisis, particularly acute in places like Los Angeles, is unfair. Background: Hotel workers want multiple raises over three years. Members of Unite Here Local 11, the union representing some 15,000 hotel workers in Southern California, authorized a strike last month, as their contract was expiring. Union leaders say workers need such increases to afford living costs in Los Angeles, where housing is scarce and expensive. The union has also asked that hotels impose a 7 percent fee on guests to help fund worker housing.
Persons: Kurt Petersen, picketers, “, ”, “ They’re Organizations: Union Locations: Los Angeles, Southern California, ”
☆ Los Angeles-area hotel workers strike over wages, housing
  + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Steve Gorman Gabriella Borter | Steve Gorman | Gabriella Borter | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
LOS ANGELES, July 2 (Reuters) - Thousands of Los Angeles-area hotel workers went on strike on Sunday demanding pay hikes and improved benefits in a region where high housing costs make it difficult for low-wage earners to live close to where they hold jobs, union officials said. Unite Here Local 11, which represents 15,000 workers at more than 60 major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties, declared the strike a day after the workers' contract expired. [1/4]People protest in front of Hotel Indigo as unionized hotel workers in Los Angeles and Orange County go on strike, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 2, 2023. Los Angeles has been a flashpoint for labor strife on several fronts this year, including the protracted writers strike and a three-day walkout in March by education support staff for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles and Gabriella Borter in New York; Editing by Mary Milliken and Josie KaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Kurt Petersen, Maria Hernandez, David Swanson, Hernandez, Steve Gorman, Gabriella Borter, Mary Milliken, Josie Kao Organizations: Southern, Hollywood, InterContinental, Hotel, Millennium Biltmore, JW Marriott, Fairmont, Sheraton Universal, Universal, REUTERS, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Coordinated, Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles City News Service, Los Angeles Unified School District, Thomson Locations: ANGELES, Los Angeles, Orange, Fairmont Miramar, Santa Monica, Universal City, Laguna Cliffs, Dana Point, Indigo, Orange County, Los Angeles , California, U.S, L.A, Beverly Hills, Long Beach, West, New York
☆ Thousands of California hotel workers go on strike amid holiday weekend, demanding better pay and benefits
  + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Thousands of hotel employees across LA and southern California went on strike Sunday. 96% of the union voted last month to authorize a strike amid disputes over pay and benefits. The union's website states that it represents over 32,000 workers across Southern California and Arizona, and at least 15,000 workers are affected by the current dispute. About 600 of the union's members are not striking as LA's largest hotel, the Westin Bonaventure, agreed to a tentative deal with its union workers last week. The strike is the latest labor dispute to reach this extreme in Los Angeles, which has seen multiple over the last few months, per the Times.
Persons: —, Kurt Petersen, We're, it's, Emely Lopez, Insider's Reed Alexander Organizations: Service, CNN, New York Times, Westin Bonaventure, Intercontinental, KTLA, . Teachers, Hollywood Locations: LA, California, Los Angeles, Orange, Southern California, Arizona
☆ Workers at major hotels in Southern California set to strike over holiday weekend
  + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
New York CNN —A union representing 15,000 workers at 65 major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties are set to go on strike early Saturday in a push for significantly improved wages. In 2023, hotel profits in Los Angeles and Orange County exceeded pre-pandemic levels according to Unite Here Local 11, the union representing the workers. But the union said hospitality workers continue to struggle to afford a place to live in the cities where they work. Hotel workers priced out of LA“Hotel workers who work in the booming Los Angeles’ tourism industry must be able to live in Los Angeles,” said union Co-President Kurt Petersen. “Workers are ready to strike until they get what they are asking for,” said union spokesperson Maria Hernandez.
Persons: JW, Beverly Hilton, Seasons Regent Beverly Wilshire, ”, Kurt Petersen, Maria Hernandez Organizations: New, New York CNN, Ritz, Carlton, JW Marriott LA, Anaheim Hilton, Seasons Regent, LA “, Westin Bonaventure, Coordinated, Management, City, “ Workers, Screen, American Federation of Television, Radio Artists, Los Angeles Locations: New York, Los Angeles, Orange, Fairmont Miramar, Anaheim, LA, Angeles, City and County, Orange County, Southern California
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