Dive Brief:
- Workers at four hotels in Boston and one in New Haven, Connecticut, walked off the job Thursday morning, according to hospitality union Unite Here in a release obtained by Hotel Dive.
- Some Boston hotel workers previously struck over Labor Day weekend, but the ones who walked out during Thursday’s second wave were from different properties: Dagny Boston, the Newbury Boston, Moxy Boston Downtown and W Boston. In New Haven, workers struck at Omni New Haven Hotel.
- There are now 1,250 hotel workers on strike across the country, including Hilton workers in San Diego who have been off the job since Sept. 1.
Dive Insight:
The Boston strikes that began Thursday are planned to last three days, and the strike in New Haven has not announced its duration, according to Unite Here.
In San Diego, however, workers at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront have elected to strike until their contract demands are met.
Though most of the 10,000 workers who struck over Labor Day weekend are back on the job, contract negotiations remain “unresolved,” according to Unite Here. That means strikes could still begin “at any time” in the cities where they’ve been authorized.
Sacramento, California, joined that list of cities yesterday, when union workers at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel voted by 97% to authorize a strike, according to a post on social media platform X.
Other cities where strikes are authorized are Baltimore; Greenwich, Connecticut; Honolulu and Kauai, Hawaii; Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose, California; Providence, Rhode Island; and Seattle.
Some 40,000 hotel workers across the U.S. and Canada are negotiating labor contracts this year. Workers are seeking wages that better meet the rising cost of living and safer working conditions.
