Dozens of California elected officials signed an open letter to Taylor Swift, urging her to postpone her upcoming L.A. performances in solidarity with striking hospitality workers.
Unite Here Local 11 has been in contract negotiations with hotels since late April, and the union is requesting an immediate increase of $5 per hour in wages and an additional $3 per hour raise each year over a span of two years. Also among their demands are health care benefits, a pension plan, and a policy that would ban the use of E-Verify, the federal system that checks a worker’s immigration status.
The union claims these changes would help offset expected cost increases ahead of the 2026 soccer World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics, both of which are scheduled to hold events in Los Angeles and help workers to afford local housing. For their part, the Coordinated Bargaining Group, a coalition representing 44 hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties, filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union in June. The group argued that Unite Here Local 11 failed to bargain “in good faith” by striking and by failing to respond to a counteroffer from the coalition, a spokesperson for the group said in a statement.
“If the Union really wanted an agreement to help the employees, it would have dropped these issues long ago instead of taking employees out on strike over them,” the spokesman, Keith Grossman said. Michael Mitsanas is a Los Angeles-based journalist. His reporting has appeared in The Diplomat Asia Pacific, NBC News, NBC OUT, NBC News NOW, and MSNBC.
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