BREAKING Thousands of SoCal hotel workers on strike after contract negotiations for higher pay, better benefits fail
The contract between the hotels and Unite Here Local 11, which represents up to 15,000 workers employed at 65 major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties, expired at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
Workers gathered for a rally outside the InterContinental Hotel in downtown L.A. after the strike was announced.Unite Here said that once the Westin contract is ratified, the 600 workers at the Bonaventure will enjoy:-- affordable, excellent family healthcare-- pension contribution increases so that workers can retire with dignity and
"With these extraordinary raises, I will no longer have to choose between paying my rent and putting food on the table for my family," one employee, Nancy Cerrato of Westin's housekeeping department, said in a union statement. "We have given our lives to this industry. We deserve respect and to be able to afford to live in the city where we work.
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