UNITE HERE Strike: One Job Should Be Enough!
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12 Oct UNITE HERE Strike: One Job Should Be Enough!

Posted at 11:52h in Solidarity, Strikes, Working Families by

Marriott is the largest and richest hotel company in the world and can set the standard for the global hotel industry. Marriott’s 13 billion dollar acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts in 2016 made it even larger, with 6,500 properties worldwide.

Marriott is more than big enough to provide jobs that are safe and enough for workers to live on.

7,700 UNITE HERE Marriott Workers are on strike across the nation at 23 locations in Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Detroit, San Diego, and two locations in Hawaii. Thousands of additional UNITE HERE workers at Marriott properties have authorized strikes.

“I could not be more proud of the courage and solidarity of UNITE HERE hotel workers today, for stepping up to fight for a better life for themselves, their families, and all hotel workers across the industry. Marriott is the richest and most profitable hotel company in the world, and by taking them on in this historic hotel worker strike, UNITE HERE union members are going to change the lives of all workers in our industry,” states UNITE HERE International President D. Taylor.

UNITE HERE affiliates have spent months in negotiations with Marriott in cities across the country as contracts expired, but authorized strikes weeks ago after Marriott failed to make significant movement on key strike issues including providing jobs that pay enough for workers to support their families, securing job protection around automation, and workplace safety around the so-called “Green Choice” program. UNITE HERE returned to the bargaining table after authorizing the strikes over the past two weeks, but Marriott remained unwilling to make meaningful progress on central issues. Additional cities may strike Marriott at any time.

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Major Actions are planned for tomorrow, October 13 in cities across the nation. BCTGM members in these locations are urged to show solidarity by joining our union brothers and sisters on picket lines!

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