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  • Week-Long Strikes Push Hyatt for Contracts, Right to Solidarity
    Jenny Brown
    Sep 12 2011 - 1:42pm

    Hotel workers escalated their efforts against Hyatt, launching a week-long strike in four cities Thursday. They want contracts, and the right to strike or boycott in support of Hyatt workers elsewhere.

  • Hotel Workers Turn Up Heat on Stubborn Hyatt
    Jenny Brown
    Jul 22 2011 - 1:02pm

    The summer heat wave got even hotter on the picket line in front of the Chicago Park Hyatt yesterday when hotel managers turned winter heat lamps on their striking workers. They were striking for the day as part of a wave of pickets and civil disobedience hitting Hyatt hotels in nine cities.

  • Hotel Housekeepers Break Silence on Job Assaults
    Jenny Brown
    Jun 2 2011 - 6:38pm

    When a union hotel worker accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, the reverberations went beyond one rich man's legal woes. Many hotel workers are coming forward with their stories of sexual abuse, aided by UNITE HERE.

  • Hotel Workers Target Hyatt

    Hyatt hotel workers are on the march again. They’re calling out management’s push for more work in less time, plus the chain’s demands to push more health care costs onto workers and “lock in the recession” at the bargaining table.

  • Hotel Workers Wildcat in Southern California
    Andrew Cohen and Joseph Murphy
    Aug 19 2010 - 11:58am

    Hotel workers in Irvine, California, did something August 9 almost unheard of recently—they struck a non-union shop. A daylong picket demanded bosses stop denying breaks and pay for years of missed breaktime.

  • Women's Day March in San Antonio Says “Ya Basta” to Abusive Treatment of Workers
    by Chris Kutalik
    Mar 9 2010 - 11:17am

    International Women's Day often gets short shrift in the United States, its places of birth, but in San Antonio, women's groups are raising its profile—and a little hell—while bolstering a hotel organizing drive.

  • After Years of Struggle, California Hotel Workers Make Gains

    Mischa Gaus

    The first contract signed June 4 at the Hilton Hotel in Glendale, California is nothing to sneeze at these days—modest raises, health care costs cut in half, and relief from a crushing workload. But its significance for hotel workers struggling to lift standards nationwide is even greater. In September 2005, the Los Angeles-area Hilton was where UNITE HERE launched its Hotel Workers Rising campaign. . . .


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