Two workers at the Long Beach Yacht Club filed complaints with the California Civil Rights Department for the alleged sex-based harassment the two mothers endured while working at the Yacht Club. Both allege that the private club failed to respond appropriately to repeated complaints of sex-based harassment, specifically against pregnant women, that took place over the course of multiple years at the private club.
Management wants to eliminate the service charge—a practice that has been in place for decades. For us, the service charge is steady, reliable income that we depend on to pay our rent and bills. We have discussed this among ourselves and voted unanimously—every worker wants to keep it.
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Union members, clergy, and community leaders joined the workers of the Residence Inn by Marriott Long Beach as they took the brave step of going public and are asking for a fair process to organize to join the union and bring dignity and respect to their workplace.
Click here to see an album of the delegation. ¡Sí se puede!
Workers at the Long Beach Yacht Club are fighting for a new contract. Management wants to take away the Service Charge in the new contract and is offering minimum raises. Servers and bartenders at the Yacht Club have relied on the service charge to pay their bills and raise their families. Adding insult to injury the club has offered a ¢40 raise over three years to all back of the house workers, some who have worked there for over 45 years!
Nothing like a Sunday afternoon picket at the Long Beach Yacht Club! Workers united for a better contract!
Workers at the Long Beach Yacht Club voted 100% to authorize a strike. If the company doesn’t give them what they are asking for, they will go on strike once their contract expires December 31!
“This is something that we’ve been working on for a couple of years now, and it’s very significant,” said Ada Briceño, co-president of Unite Here Local 11, the labor union representing concession workers. “It’s going to change lives for hundreds of workers in the airport, in the Convention Center, and in the new amphitheater. We’re quite happy with what’s transpiring.”
The Long Beach City Council had a final vote to raise the wage for concession workers at the airport and convention center to $29.50/hour by the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028. The policy extends protections to future workers at the Long Beach Bowl, a highly anticipated waterfront venue adjacent to the Queen Mary that will be the second-largest outdoor amphitheater in L.A. County.
Thanks to this victory, concession workers are now brought up to the same wage standard that was won by hotel workers when Long Beach voters approved Measure RW, which went into effect just over a year ago.
This victory was only made possible through our broad coalition of 75 local community organizations, 206 small businesses, and thousands of voters who overwhelmingly passed higher wages for our Long Beach tourism workers through Measure RW.
On July 22, the Long Beach City Council voted to raise the wage for concession workers at the airport and convention center to $29.50/hour by the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028. Thanks to this victory, concessions workers are now at the same wage standard that hotel workers secured when Long Beach voters approved Measure RW, which went into effect just over a year ago.
