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Local labor battles rarely make the national news any more, but this one did. In October, 1,400 hotel workers in San Francisco staged a two-week strike against four properties. The [...]

Byline: Ana Figueroa September 11 depressed tourism everywhere, and Las Vegas was no exception. By some estimates, bookings in the Nevada gambling mecca dropped 50 percent in the weeks after [...]

A local union is trying to organize about 40 housekeepers at the Georgetown Inn and Latham Hotel. The Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 25 recently filed for an election [...]

Windstar e-mail Windstar Cruises established on-board e-mail services for guests, with outgoing e-mail priced at up to $7.50 for 5,000 characters, $2 for each additional 1,000 characters and $2 for […]

A four-week hotel-workers' strike that affected seven major meeting properties in Vancouver, B.C., left planners scrambling to make alternate arrangements. Two planners with events at the 510-room Westin Bayshore Resort [...]

A Tysons Corner hotel -- once at the center of a union battle -- will begin negotiating employee contracts with the hotel union in January. A 'clear majority' of the [...]

Programs link with industries and bring higher pay, benefits and security They're anonymous, yet everywhere in large hotels. You know them by their carts in the corridor with its flesh [...]

With contracts covering nearly 5,000 workers at 17 of L.A.'s largest hotels set to expire in April, hotel operators and the union representing their workers are preparing for the possibility [...]

Effective October 13, 2002, permanent hotel staff not on Jarvis Hotels' minimum rates of pay got increases of 1.5%. The union involved was GMB. The article tabulates pay change examples and pay structure at October 13, 2002.

NATIONAL REPORT - On Labor Day, approximately 250 union supporters rallied in front of the San Francisco Marriott, protesting against the hotel's management for not yet signing a contract with [...]

Averting a strike, hotel workers in Washington ratified a labor contract with owners of 14 hotels that includes a pay raise and continuation of employer-paid health-care benefits. Hotel owners were […]

Uncertainty surrounding the labor dispute involving nine Los Angeles hotels has resulted in cancelled room reservations, banquets, catering assignments and meetings. The losses come even as officials of the workers' [...]

Union representatives of workers at the Hilton Hawaiian Village and Sheraton's four hotels in Waikiki have scheduled a strike vote for Aug. 13. The move establishes a deadline for progress [...]

Hundreds of workers at two hotels on Walt Disney World property walked off the job Tuesday in the first strike in years in the Orlando areas tourism industry. Teamsters-affiliated housekeepers, [...]