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The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) was a United States labor union representing workers of the hospitality industry, formed in 1890. In 2004, HERE merged with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) to form UNITE HERE. HERE notably organized the staff of Yale University in 1984.
NEW YORK — Some 10,000 U.S. hotel workers began a multi-day strike in several cities on Sunday after contract talks with hotel operators Marriott International, Hilton Worldwide, and Hyatt ...
[63] [64] On November 12, 2024, 2,500 additional hotel workers who were UNITE HERE Local 5 members and who worked at the Hawaii-based Marriott-operated hotels Royal Hawaiian, Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, Sheraton Waikiki, Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort, and the Westin Moana Surfrider ratified new labor contracts as well. [65]
From 2019 to 2022, the number of workers per 100 occupied rooms in the U.S. hotel industry dropped by nearly 14%, according to the union. "The workloads have gotten exhausting and overwhelming ...
About 13,500 unionized hotel workers in four U.S. cities plan strike authorization votes next month as contract talks with Marriott International, Hilton Worldwide Holdings and Hyatt Hotels Corp ...
Striking waiters at headquarters, May 31, 1912. In 1912 the IWW had been very successful in its organizing, and created the Hotel Workers' International Union. [1] Before the IWW became involved in the 1912 New York City waiters' strike, the only union in place for hotel workers was the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, which had about 2,000 members, most of ...
More than 10,000 workers at 25 hotels across the U.S. were on strike Monday after choosing Labor Day weekend to amplify their demands for higher pay, fairer workloads and the reversal of COVID-era ...
The new bill, which Queens Councilman Francisco Moya plans to introduce Wednesday, would target hotels where 75% or more of workers remain unemployed, or where at least 50% of rooms remain out of use.