Dive Brief:
- The hotel worker strikes that saw more than 10,000 workers across the country walk off the job last weekend have — mostly — ended, according to hospitality union Unite Here.
- Some 700 workers at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront will remain on an open-ended strike, but all others who walked out on Sunday and Monday have returned to work, the union said.
- Though workers are back on the job at 24 hotels in eight cities, none have ratified new contracts with their employer hotels, and Unite Here noted that their labor dispute is ongoing. Further disruptions could take place if contract negotiations continue to be unsuccessful.
Dive Insight:
Over 9,500 hotel employees who struck over Labor Day weekend are back at work in Baltimore; Boston; Greenwich, Connecticut; Honolulu and Kauai, Hawaii; San Francisco and San Jose, California; and Seattle.
With the exception of San Diego’s, each city’s limited-duration strike lasted from one to three days.
Strikes could still be called in cities where they’ve been authorized, but have not yet occurred: New Haven, Connecticut; Oakland, California; and Providence, Rhode Island.
Unite Here is asking patrons to avoid all hotels where strikes occurred or have been authorized, as labor disputes are ongoing.
Some 10,000 workers walked off the job on Sunday and Monday at Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotels. Across the country, union members are seeking higher wages and working conditions that more closely resemble the pre-pandemic standard.
In San Diego, Unite Here Local 30 claimed that Hilton San Diego Bayfront has “flat out refused to counter” the union’s proposals on “bringing wages in line with our cost of living in San Diego.”
A Hilton spokesperson told Hotel Dive last week that the hotel makes “every effort to maintain a cooperative and productive relationship with Unite Here Local 30, and we remain committed to negotiating in good faith to reach a fair and reasonable agreement.”
