/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-09-04 11:06:442023-09-05 11:08:03LA Times: This Labor Day, work-life balance is on the table
Los Angeles: Areas at LAX employs cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, and food attendants at concessions concepts, such as Homeboy Bakery, Dunkin Donuts, Urth Cafe, California Pizza Kitchen, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, and Ford’s in all terminals, including the Tom Bradley International terminal.
“My entire family works for AREAS USA–myself, my sister, my brother, and my mom. None of us make enough money to survive,” said Cecilia Otea, barista at Urth Bar. “All of us have to work and live together to afford living in LA. I’m voting yes to strike so my entire family can have a better life.”
Workers’ collective bargaining agreement with Areas expired on June 30th, 2022. Their primary contract demands include livable wages to keep pace with the soaring cost of housing, a pension to retire with dignity, and fair staffing.
During the pandemic, airport concessionaires received over $1 billion in federal relief and cut staffing. While the industry has more than recovered, workers struggle to afford a place to live near where they work. Airport workers live as far away as Lancaster, California City, and Bakersfield.
Workers could walk out any day starting Labor Day weekend, joining thousands of hotel workers, also represented by UNITE HERE Local 11, who have engaged in a wave of strikes since the 4th of July weekend.
“Workers all over the city have reached their breaking point,” said Susan Minato, Co-President of UNITE HERE Local 11. “The travel and tourism industry exploited the pandemic and continues to rake in profits while their workers, the ones who actually make all this possible, are left living paycheck to paycheck, one emergency away from homelessness. It’s time the industry pays workers their fair share and if workers have to strike to make that happen, they will.”
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-09-02 14:55:032023-09-05 16:24:37Labor Day Kickoff: LAX Workers Vote 99% to Authorize Strike
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-09-01 15:57:202023-09-01 15:57:20JOHN STEEN: ON STRIKE!
Los Angeles: On Friday, SoCal hotel strikers will march from the InterContinental Los Angeles to the JW Marriott LA Live. Hotel workers from over a dozen properties walked off the job Wednesday, marking the latest development in this massive citywide labor dispute..
The strike came as the American Political Science Association arrived in town. Last week, the workers’ call for conventions to boycott and stay away from Los Angeles marked a major escalation in the largest hotel worker strike in U.S. history. Joining the workers’ call were some APSA members, SEIU Local 99, AFSCME Local 3299, and others. Friday morning, thousands of striking workers plan to march in downtown Los Angeles beginning outside the JW Marriott L.A Live.
https://www.unitehere11.org/wp-content/uploads/LABORDAYSTRIKEday3-2.jpg500750UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-09-01 11:33:392023-11-15 12:08:37DAY 3: Chaos Continues During APSA, Thousands of Hotel Workers March in DTLA To Kick Off Labor Day Weekend
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-09-01 10:42:002023-09-05 10:43:39STRIKE AUTHORIZED: AREAS LAX
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-09-01 10:39:582023-09-05 10:41:46LA TIMES: LAX food workers vote to authorize strike ahead of Labor Day weekend, pressuring tourism industry
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-09-01 10:10:082023-09-05 16:41:34ESPN: Messi, Inter Miami switch LA hotel due to striking workers
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-09-01 10:03:212023-09-05 10:06:01MLSPA STANDS WITH THE STRIKING WORKERS OF THE FAIRMONT MIRAMAR
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-09-01 09:53:222023-09-05 16:40:49THANK YOU LIONEL MESSI AND TEAMMATES
https://www.unitehere11.org/wp-content/uploads/Messi-announcement.jpg750750UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-31 15:49:382023-11-15 19:19:56REUTERS: Striking LA hotel workers ask Messi, Inter Miami to stay elsewhere
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-31 15:47:462023-11-15 19:20:21NPR: Political scientists confront real world politics dealing with hotel workers strike
/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpg00UNITE HERE Local 11/wp-content/uploads/newlogo_512.jpgUNITE HERE Local 112023-08-30 22:43:412023-08-30 23:03:15A MESSAGE TO LIONEL MESSI AND HIS TEAMMATES
LA Times: This Labor Day, work-life balance is on the table
Labor Day Kickoff: LAX Workers Vote 99% to Authorize Strike
“My entire family works for AREAS USA–myself, my sister, my brother, and my mom. None of us make enough money to survive,” said Cecilia Otea, barista at Urth Bar. “All of us have to work and live together to afford living in LA. I’m voting yes to strike so my entire family can have a better life.”
Workers could walk out any day starting Labor Day weekend, joining thousands of hotel workers, also represented by UNITE HERE Local 11, who have engaged in a wave of strikes since the 4th of July weekend.
JOHN STEEN: ON STRIKE!
DAY 3: Chaos Continues During APSA, Thousands of Hotel Workers March in DTLA To Kick Off Labor Day Weekend
Los Angeles: On Friday, SoCal hotel strikers will march from the InterContinental Los Angeles to the JW Marriott LA Live. Hotel workers from over a dozen properties walked off the job Wednesday, marking the latest development in this massive citywide labor dispute..
STRIKE AUTHORIZED: AREAS LAX
LA TIMES: LAX food workers vote to authorize strike ahead of Labor Day weekend, pressuring tourism industry
ESPN: Messi, Inter Miami switch LA hotel due to striking workers
MLSPA STANDS WITH THE STRIKING WORKERS OF THE FAIRMONT MIRAMAR
THANK YOU LIONEL MESSI AND TEAMMATES
REUTERS: Striking LA hotel workers ask Messi, Inter Miami to stay elsewhere
NPR: Political scientists confront real world politics dealing with hotel workers strike
A MESSAGE TO LIONEL MESSI AND HIS TEAMMATES