Entries by Daria Ovide

BREAKING: Hilton Anaheim Workers Strike Over Wages and Understaffing Amid JAMZ Bid Challenge 2023 Cheerleading Competition

Anaheim, CA: Hundreds of room attendants, cooks, dishwashers, bellmen and other hotel classifications walked out on strike at the Hilton Anaheim this morning. The walkout comes as the JAMZ Bid Challenge 2023 Cheerleading Competition is taking place. Included in their contract demands since early July are humane staffing levels, wages that keep up with the […]

YOU ARE THE MUSCLE IN THE ROOM

We don’t care that the hotel companies have billions of dollars. The whole country knows that Local 11 is on strike.

San Pedro Housekeepers File Class Action Suit Against DoubleTree Alleging Violations of LA Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance

LOS ANGELES—Today, a longtime housekeeper at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel San Pedro filed a class action lawsuit against the hotel alleging violations of the Los Angeles Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance, which the City of Los Angeles adopted in June 2022. While similar ordinances have passed in Irvine, Seattle, Oakland, Santa Monica, Emeryville, Glendale, West […]

JOB OPENING: Member Services Representative

UNITE HERE Local 11 represents approximately 32,000 workers in the hospitality and multi-service industries in Arizona and throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties in California. We are housekeepers, food servers, cooks, dishwashers, bartenders and others in the tourism and food service industries. Local 11 has a proud history of community involvement and a strong commitment […]

UNITE HERE Local 11 Hospitality Workers Call on ALIS Conference Hotel Executives to Help Solve Housing Crisis

Demand Endorsement of Responsible Hotel Ordinance & Higher Wages to Afford Rent Los Angeles: Over a thousand room attendants, cooks and servers with tools of their trade–beds, bell carts, mops–marched in downtown LA today asking the hotel executives attending the American Lodging Investment Summit, “the largest hotel investment conference in the world,” to step up […]