Workers are demanding higher wages and more staffing to ease their workload. The union says that cuts to staffing and guest services that many hotels made during the COVID-19 pandemic were never restored.
Union members from Local 26, representing workers in the hospitality industries of Massachusetts, picket outside the Hyatt Regency Boston on July 17.
The American Hotel And Lodging Association , the trade group representing major hotel operators, says 86% of its member hotels have increased wages and that wages for hotel workers have risen 26% since the pandemic, according to The Associated Press.
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