/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-07 16:55:222023-08-11 14:27:06FOX 11: Striking hotel workers tackled while picketing outside Santa Monica hotel
Los Angeles: Hundreds of striking hotel workers will picket and rally at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown and announce the filing of an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the hotel industry’s Coordinated Bargaining Group, which represents a majority of LA’s unionized hotel employers, including Hyatt, Hilton, IHG, and Marriott.
The mass action and announcement of legal filing will denounce a pattern of ugly episodes of violence on picket lines at hotels where workers have been on strike. On Saturday, striking hotel workers led a peaceful march through Santa Monica that ended at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows, where the workers and supporters were attacked and tackled to the ground by hotel security as they sought to establish a picket line. Video of the violent episode has gone viral.
Another violent episode occurred on Saturday in Long Beach. Hotel security personnel including a manager at the Maya Hotel sought to forcibly relocate striking workers using a chain link fence while a guest ran around the fence and punched a worker in the head, pushing at least two others.
At the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Dana Point, which is owned by the University of California Retirement Fund and operated by Aimbridge, workers have been repeatedly assaulted, threatened and had property destroyed. The Union alleges that hotel security personnel have failed to assist the Union in identifying guests who have engaged in such conduct, and, in one instance, a hotel security leader allegedly told a guest who had threatened to assault workers that the guest should do what he wanted to do and that the security head would testify on the guest’s behalf.
Last week, John Tesar, the “celebrity chef” behind the Laguna Cliffs’ Knife Modern Steak restaurant, approached striking workers and broke a drum one of the workers was holding. He then told the striking workers: “Take your union and shove it up your ass. Suck my d___. You are a bad person. … You’re a lazy pendeja.” While Aimbridge has claimed that Tesar “has been removed from the property while we continue to investigate this incident,” his relationship to the hotel remains uncertain and, as far as the Union is aware, there have been no consequences for any company personnel or guests for the threatening and violent conduct perpetrated against the workers.
Thousands of workers continue to strike at hotels in or around West Hollywood, LAX, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Long Beach. In total, workers at 46 hotels across LA and Orange Counties have struck in the last month in the largest hotel strike in California history.
Workers are calling on the industry to follow the lead of the Westin Bonaventure, which has reached a tentative agreement that includes a living wage that will enable workers to afford to live in the cities where they work. Yet, rather than agree to provide workers the wages and benefits they are calling for, the hotel industry has tried to curtail workers’ ability to protest and in some cases condoned violence against them, even as the hotels charge top dollar for rooms during Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour six-day run at SoFi Stadium.
https://www.unitehere11.org/wp-content/uploads/intercon6.jpg500750UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-07 15:01:342023-08-07 15:01:34Striking Hotel Workers Denounce Company Violence on Picket Lines; Hundreds to Rally in DTLA
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-07 10:25:252023-08-11 10:37:25INDEPENDENT: Controversial chef John Tesar ‘removed from hotel’ after altercation with striking workers
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-05 16:52:312023-08-11 14:34:16STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE AT THE FAIRMONT MIRAMAR
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-05 16:29:222023-08-28 17:19:26Fairmont Miramar workers being attacked by the security guards at the hotel!
Meet Mercedes Flores, a housekeeper and worker leader at the Sheraton Grand in DTLA. This is why she has gone on strike.
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-05 10:45:252023-08-11 10:48:42MERCEDES FLORES
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-05 10:27:422023-08-11 10:36:08PAGE SIX: ‘Top Chef’ star John Tesar gives middle finger during profane meltdown on hotel picketers: ‘Suck my d–k!’
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-03 17:54:542023-08-04 18:08:55LA TIMES: L.A.’s hotel strike expands to more properties near Taylor Swift’s SoFi concerts. Here’s what to know
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-03 12:50:532023-08-04 18:07:54CNN: Taylor Swift urged to postpone LA shows as hotel workers strike
Rafael has worked at the Westin LAX for 30 years. He is fighting for the five pillars; wages, health insurance, a pension, affordable housing, and fair workloads.
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-03 10:49:572023-08-22 14:23:34RAFAEL CASTRO
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-02 09:24:172023-08-07 16:25:30THE NATION: A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On?
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-01 23:55:142023-08-03 23:56:57WHO OWNS THE STREETS?
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-01 16:35:122023-08-07 16:36:35LABOR NOTES: Hotel Workers Strike against Scab Staffing App and Anti-Black Racism
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-01 13:39:122023-08-03 13:40:22TIME: California Politicians Ask Taylor Swift to Postpone L.A. Concerts in Solidarity With Striking Hotel Workers
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-01 13:35:192023-08-03 13:39:05POLITICO: California lieutenant governor joins call for Taylor Swift to postpone Los Angeles shows
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-07-31 15:52:002023-07-31 15:52:00JACOBIN: Southern California Hotel Workers Are on Strike Against Automated Management
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00Rachele Smith/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgRachele Smith2023-07-31 14:21:472023-07-31 14:21:47SCLC of Southern California Sends Letter to Blackstone Group: Re: Hiring of Black and African-American Workers at Aloft and Fairfield Inn Hotels
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00Rachele Smith/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgRachele Smith2023-07-31 14:20:222023-07-31 14:20:22Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) Sends Letter to UC Regents: Negotiate a Fair Contract and Hire Black and African-American Workers
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-07-27 22:11:522023-07-27 22:11:52OPEN LETTER FROM HOTEL HOUSEKEEPERS TO TAYLOR SWIFT
A week before her Eras Tour hits Los Angeles, dozens of hotel housekeepers published an open letter to Taylor Swift in the Los Angeles Times, asking her to support their fight for a wage that allows them to live in the city where they work. Hotels are expected to reap enormous profits from the “Swift Lift,” which has been compared to multiple consecutive Super Bowls in light of its economic benefits for the hospitality industry.
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-07-27 21:44:392023-07-27 21:53:49Hotel Housekeepers Ask Taylor Swift to Postpone Her Shows in LA
FOX 11: Striking hotel workers tackled while picketing outside Santa Monica hotel
Striking Hotel Workers Denounce Company Violence on Picket Lines; Hundreds to Rally in DTLA
Los Angeles: Hundreds of striking hotel workers will picket and rally at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown and announce the filing of an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the hotel industry’s Coordinated Bargaining Group, which represents a majority of LA’s unionized hotel employers, including Hyatt, Hilton, IHG, and Marriott.
Another violent episode occurred on Saturday in Long Beach. Hotel security personnel including a manager at the Maya Hotel sought to forcibly relocate striking workers using a chain link fence while a guest ran around the fence and punched a worker in the head, pushing at least two others.
INDEPENDENT: Controversial chef John Tesar ‘removed from hotel’ after altercation with striking workers
STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE AT THE FAIRMONT MIRAMAR
Fairmont Miramar workers being attacked by the security guards at the hotel!
MERCEDES FLORES
Meet Mercedes Flores, a housekeeper and worker leader at the Sheraton Grand in DTLA. This is why she has gone on strike.
PAGE SIX: ‘Top Chef’ star John Tesar gives middle finger during profane meltdown on hotel picketers: ‘Suck my d–k!’
LA TIMES: L.A.’s hotel strike expands to more properties near Taylor Swift’s SoFi concerts. Here’s what to know
CNN: Taylor Swift urged to postpone LA shows as hotel workers strike
RAFAEL CASTRO
Rafael has worked at the Westin LAX for 30 years. He is fighting for the five pillars; wages, health insurance, a pension, affordable housing, and fair workloads.
THE NATION: A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On?
WHO OWNS THE STREETS?
LABOR NOTES: Hotel Workers Strike against Scab Staffing App and Anti-Black Racism
TIME: California Politicians Ask Taylor Swift to Postpone L.A. Concerts in Solidarity With Striking Hotel Workers
POLITICO: California lieutenant governor joins call for Taylor Swift to postpone Los Angeles shows
JACOBIN: Southern California Hotel Workers Are on Strike Against Automated Management
SCLC of Southern California Sends Letter to Blackstone Group: Re: Hiring of Black and African-American Workers at Aloft and Fairfield Inn Hotels
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) Sends Letter to UC Regents: Negotiate a Fair Contract and Hire Black and African-American Workers
OPEN LETTER FROM HOTEL HOUSEKEEPERS TO TAYLOR SWIFT
Hotel Housekeepers Ask Taylor Swift to Postpone Her Shows in LA
A week before her Eras Tour hits Los Angeles, dozens of hotel housekeepers published an open letter to Taylor Swift in the Los Angeles Times, asking her to support their fight for a wage that allows them to live in the city where they work. Hotels are expected to reap enormous profits from the “Swift Lift,” which has been compared to multiple consecutive Super Bowls in light of its economic benefits for the hospitality industry.