Proposed OSHA Rules Seek to End Backbreaking Cleaning Practices
January 23, 2012 -- Housekeepers’ union UNITE HERE has asked the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to consider a new proposal to prevent disabling injuries in hotel room cleaners and save hotels money on workers compensation claims.
The proposed safety standard complements Senate Bill 432, a two-year bill that when introduced last year stirred considerable debate over why hotels too often fail to provide housekeepers with mops to clean floors and fitted sheets to make beds – basic tools nearly all Americans use in their homes.
LA TIMES: California Club workers agree to contract after one-day strike
By Abby Sewell
January 4, 2011 - Workers at the exclusive California Club in downtown Los Angeles who walked off the job to protest a proposed wage freeze in December announced they won a contract with modest increases in pay and benefits.
About 150 workers at the private business club waged a one-day strike Dec. 15 in protest of a proposed six-month wage freeze.
IN THESE TIMES: Campus Groups Back HEI Hotel Workers' Rights
By David Moberg
December 16, 2011 - Occupy Harvard students met last week with top university officials—on neutral territory, but following Occupy rules for participation—and presented a list of their demands. At the top of the list, they wanted Harvard to stop investing in HEI Hospitality.
Who or what is HEI? you might ask. And why would more than 1,000 Harvard students and faculty care about the university's involvement with it?
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January 23, 2012 -- Housekeepers’ union UNITE HERE has asked the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to consider a new proposal to prevent disabling injuries in hotel room cleaners and save hotels money on workers compensation claims.
By Abby Sewell
By David Moberg
