The constantly shifting nature of the hotel strike action can make it difficult to keep track of what's going on. Here's what you need to know.
enveloped the Beverly Hilton, longtime host of the annual Golden Globe Awards, and the upscale Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills early Monday morning.
Workers at the Fairmont Century Plaza, Hyatt Regency LAX, and Laguna Cliffs Marriott also went on strike Monday, extending the footprint of the “third wave” of work stoppages that began July 20.The picketing hotel workers have said their pay hasn’t kept pace with soaring housing costs, and as a result, many have been displaced from neighborhoods near their workplaces and forced into long commutes. To remedy that, they are asking for higher wages and better benefits and working conditions.
Workers at 43 hotels have participated in the strike so far, the union said, walking off the job in intermittent few-day spurts ever since the July Fourth holiday weekend. Overall, some 15,000 hotel workers covered by contracts that expired June 30 are affected.After tense bargaining talks Tuesday, hotel workers in Hollywood and Pasadena walked off the job Thursday in a third wave of strikes to hit Southern California’s hospitality sector this summer.
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