hotel workers

  • Not Just a Cheaper Pair of Hands
    Jenny Brown
    Mar 16 2012 - 10:34am

    Women workers are attacking low pay and bias from many angles, assailing wage laws that exclude them, suing over outright discrimination, and trying to organize unions. And they’ve been confronting the disrespect that accompanies smaller paychecks.

  • In the Heart of Europe, Undocumented Immigrants Organize

    Undocumented Latino immigrants in Switzerland are battling many of the same issues that immigrants face here, and they’re organizing to demand creative solutions to common problems.

  • Unions Reach for Short Strikes to Stop Concessions
    Jenny Brown & Mischa Gaus
    Nov 2 2010 - 4:46pm

    Around the country, owners are recovering profitability but refusing to share the gains. Nurses and hotel workers are pulling short strikes—just to stay in place—as employers demand givebacks and cut staffing to the bone.

  • Providence Hotel Workers Boycott Westin
    Labor Notes Staff
    Apr 16 2010 - 7:55am

    Workers at the Providence Westin Hotel in Rhode Island called a boycott in mid-March when management broke off contract talks after imposing a 20 percent wage cut and quadrupling some employee health plan contributions.

  • Trabajo En El Hotel
    Francisco Herrera
    Nov 1 2009 - 12:01am

    Yo trabajo en el hotel / y el patron tiene welfare. / Mi trabajo le da el dinero / para que coma muy bien....

  • Will the Real Lean Production Please Stand Up?

    When members of the “lean community” (their actual phrase) took issue with my recent claim that big hotel chains' embrace of lean management techniques are a contributing trend to high injury rates for housekeepers, it's hard not to say the debate is on, brothers and sisters.

  • Housekeepers' Giant “Hope Quilt” Puts Hotel Job Injuries in Spotlight
    Chris Kutalik
    Oct 16 2009 - 5:38pm

    Hotel housekeepers are on a seven-city tour with a gigantic “hope quilt” that memorializes injuries on the job. It's also a symbol of their determination to rally union and non-union hotel housekeepers against harsh working conditions and workplace injuries.