hotel workers

The tourism industry in British Columbia secured a $680 million bailout from the government to help it survive the COVID-19 pandemic. But laid off hotel workers are not included in the plan and these workers joined...

HONOLULU — With the gradual reopening of Hawaii’s economy, some are concerned that people will not want to return to work. The federal government added a $600 weekly bonus to unemployment checks, and some are making just...

Hotel workers rallied in front of the Vancouver City Hall to press for a policy to help protect their female members from lewd hotel guests. This happened after several of their members recounted their experience of...

VANCOUVER — Members of Unite Here Local 40 picketed in front of the Rosewood Hotel Georgia, currently ranked as the number one hotel in Canada, following almost a year of negotiations. The contract for about 1,500...

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...