hotel workers

by Lalaine Ignao, ABS-CBN News HONOLULU, HI — Union organization Unite Here Local 5 has been in negotiations with Kyo-Ya Hotel and Resorts since this past summer, after contracts were expired and the company refused to renew them....

by Lalaine Ignao, ABS-CBN News HONOLULU, HI — More than 8,000 members of Unite Here, the union that represents hotel workers, voted to strike at Marriott International properties where contracts have expired, in various locations all...

Thousands of workers on the Philippines’ tropical destination Boracay will be affected in the island’s six-month closure later this month. Starting April 26, the island will be off limits to tourists for six months at the...

LAS VEGAS — For 21 years, Leida Aguinaldo worked in one of the MGM properties on the Strip as a housekeeper. She says thanks to this work, she was able to give her children a decent life,...

LAS VEGAS – Ahead of the first Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton stopped at a union rally outside Donald Trump’s hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. She taunted the Republican front runner, saying workers should have...

SAN FRANCISCO – Since seven in the morning these protesters, consisting of hotel workers and union supporters, have been picketing outside of the Le Meridien Hotel and the Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf. The reason: they say the...

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Filipinos joined hotel workers, community activists…and city officials to air out their grievances along Long Beach’s downtown waterfront district. Marching with a clothesline of pillowcases and make shift beds highlighting work place...

By Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN North America Bureau Feb. 20, 2014 LOS ANGELES – Hundreds of hotel workers took to the streets in support of higher wages at all Los Angeles hotels. Nico Quiapos who works at...