The Media's Coverage of Striking Hotel Workers Needs to Change

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The Media's Coverage of Striking Hotel Workers Needs to Change
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The disparity in the coverage seems to reflect an implicit bias in favor of stories about the entertainment unions.

After 148 days of striking throughout the 'hot labor summer,' the 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America ratified their labor agreement with Hollywood studios. The media has since turned its attention to strikes by SAG-AFTRA and the United Auto Workers.But what about the 'largest hotel strike in modern U.S.

In contrast, making housekeepers and their labor invisible has always been an objective of the hotel industry, one the media risks perpetuating in the current dispute.There was dearth of coverage about the JW Marriott's decision to sic more than a dozen police officers on peaceful picketers in Downtown Los Angeles. In a video posted by Local 11, LAPD officers can be seen breaking up the picket line, and putting organizers in handcuffs.

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