Welcome to UNITE HERE Local 11
UNITE HERE Local 11 is providing assistance to hotel, restaurant, airport and food service workers to overcome challenges due to COVID-19.
Assistance with Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Tenant Rights and Rental Assistance
Hospitality Worker Hardship Fund
Organized workers earn more. Union members can enjoy health and pension benefits funded through employers’ contributions. Workers and their dependents can also negotiate to win free legal assistance with immigration services, housing issues, divorce, adoption and other services. Our families deserve more. Organize and Win!
Hospitality workers celebrate right to return to work
Red Carpet at the Picket Line
Adiós Chateau Marmont
Hollywood is the oxygen that feeds the Chateau and its owner, Adre Balazs. But Hollywood stands with the fired workers, and has left the Chateau Marmont. They heard about this fight and they said: “ADIOS CHATEAU MARMONT!”
Chateau Marmont Hit With New Lawsuit Over Alleged Racist Incidents Involving Guests
BOYCOTT CHATEAU MARMONT
It has been over a year since the Chateau Marmont fired more than 200 of its workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving workers who had dedicated decades of their lives to the hotel without job security or company-provided healthcare. Since then, many of the hotel’s workers have spoken out about their experiences working at the hotel, prompting concern from community leaders and the call for a boycott.
Former employees of Chateau Marmont stage protest outside the famed Hollywood hotel
Fired Chateau Marmont Workers Call Attention to Hotel Boycott with Red Carpet Protest Outside the Chateau Marmont
Protest Comes A Day After Academy Award Nominated Film Director Aaron Sorkin Pulls Film Project from Chateau In Solidarity with Workers
Los Angeles, CA: As Oscar weekend begins, over a hundred protestors–including laid off Chateau Marmont workers– gathered outside the awards show after-party hotspot to call attention to the snowballing boycott at the hotel.
The protest had an awards show theme to celebrate the decades of service that fired Chateau Marmont workers gave to “Hollywood’s Playground” and that the workers have events planned throughout Oscar weekend calling attention to the boycott at the hotel.
“We applaud Aaron Sorkin, Martin Sheen, Amanda Seyfried and dozens of other celebrities who support the boycott of the Chateau Marmont. It is official: Hollywood has left the Chateau Marmont. They are only coming back when the bartenders,servers, and room attendants return to their jobs and have a workplace free of harassment and abuse.” said Kurt Petersen, Co-President of UNITE HERE Local 11.”
Through the highly publicized boycott of the Chateau Marmont, workers are calling on the hotel to demonstrate a commitment to respecting workers’ years of service by rehiring them in accordance with their legal rights and ensuring that all workers—regardless of their race, sex, or background—feel treated with dignity and respect.
A growing number of celebrities have endorsed the workers’ call for a boycott, including Jane Fonda, Alfonso Cuarón, Martin Sheen, Tom Morello, Edie Falco, Lena Headey, Constance Zimmer, Nikki Bilderback, Thomas Sadoski, Joshua Oppenhimer, Eliza Dushku, Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Abbott, Sarah Silverman, Daveed Diggs and Alison Pill. Organizations like SAG-AFTRA have also voiced their support for the fired workers.
It has been over a year since the Chateau Marmont fired more than 200 of its workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving workers who had dedicated decades of their lives to the hoteL without job security or company-provided healthcare. Since then, many of the hotel’s workers have spoken out about their experiences working at the hotel, prompting concern from community leaders and the call for a boycott.
Aaron Sorkin’s Lucille Ball biopic halts Chateau Marmont shoot over boycott
Why Are Academy Award Nominees Boycotting the Hotel Chateau Marmont?
Aaron Sorkin’s Lucy-Desi Movie Scraps Chateau Marmont Shoot Amid Boycott