A union is asking 15,000 hotel workers to authorize a strike during tourist season. As L.A. gears up for the summer travel season and hotel profits rise, it’s crucial to ensure workers are fairly compensated, said the co-president of Unite Here Local 11.
A union is asking 15,000 workers at hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties to authorize a strike during the height of tourist season.
Petersen said the union has plans to ramp up pressure on a number of other tourism companies — other hotels as well as food operators at airports, stadiums and resorts whose contracts are also set to expire June 30. He said in total more than 20,000 Southern California tourism workers covered by roughly 100 contracts will be involved in actions this summer.
“They haven’t provided a single counter proposal. They haven’t put a single penny on the table,” Petersen said. “Hyatt has just commenced negotiations along with other Los Angeles and Orange County hotels and is committed to bargaining in good faith,” D’Angelo said in a statement. Brenda Mendoza, a uniform attendant at JW Marriott in the L.A. Live entertainment district, said her job doesn’t pay enough to allow her to live in Koreatown, the neighborhood where she was raised.
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