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Byline: Special Events StaffUnite HereLocal 5 members in Hawaii voted overwhelmingly yesterday to ratify a contract for 2,700 workers at five Maui and Waikiki hotels operated by Marriott, ending a [...]

Byline: Special Events Staff Although labor strife at big Chicago hotels is calming down, union members walked out of Marriott properties in eight U.S. cities this week, saysUSA Today: About [...]

Byline: Special Events Staff Five more Chicago hotels have settled on contracts with labor union Unite Here, but 10 properties are still facing a strike, says our sister publications group [...]

Byline: Special Events Staff Workers at two Kimpton hotels in Chicago--Hotel Palomar and Hotel Allegro--ratified a contract over the weekend, leaving 17 downtown properties where workers are still on strike, [...]

The cause and effect relationships between the leader-member relations, job satisfaction and the organizational commitment in the international Taiwanese tourist hotels are discussed. Job satisfaction is shown to act as a mediating factor between the commitment and labor-member relations in these hotels.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa entered politics as a leader of the political left, but the realities of governing a large, complex city discourage the extremes of partisanship and ideology encouraged by national politics, forcing him to govern from the center.

It is growing clearer each day that labor unrest in the hotel industry could explode this year into a conflict that threatens the well-being of meetings in several of North [...]

Consider the following scenario: Your hotel is under construction and due to open in nine months, when an official of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (H.E.R.E.) approaches you. [...]

The election of Service Employees International Union Pres. John Sweeney as the new president of AFL-CIO is expected to bring dramatic changes to organized labor in the hospitality industry. These organizing efforts presents major challenges to meeting planners, who prefer to deal with non-union hotels over union hotels. However, Sweeney assures planners that a hotel workers' union would benefit hotels because it would organize employees and improve relations between employees and hotel management., New AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney has a mission that could change the way you do business John Sweeney is a man with a mission - to bring millions of additional [...]

A survey of hotel and catering workers in five Scottish towns and cities confirms employers' and managers' hostility to trade unions but reveals that 62% of workers would be interested in joining a trade union if given the opportunity. Generally positive views of trade unions were held by some 80% of respondents, but only 46% were aware of trade union involvement in the hotel and catering industry. Respondents tended to be resigned to poor pay and working conditions and felt that the high turnover of labour in the hotel and catering industry made effective unionization extremely difficult.

LABORING RELATIONS After more than 20 years of bickering--and indirectly helping hotels keep out unions--the ILWU and Local 5 are at loggerheads. For Local 5 especially, the failure to make [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Labor contracts for hotel workers in three major markets--Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.--have expired, and tense negotiations are under way amid demonstrations, strike votes and [...]

WORKERS AT 32 Toronto hotels have authorized a strike over contract issues for as early as June 24, right before the G20 summit scheduled for June 26-27 in the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To paraphrase Yogi Berra, it's starting to look like deja vu all over again. Picket lines are being organized in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Attendees are being [...]

John Lam, a Chinese immigrant who made his fortune in the garment industry, opened his first hotel in Manhattan in 2003. For nearly four years, the Four Points Sheraton on [...]

As we nervously step into 2009 unsure whether we will stay upright or fall, we must consider our staff, who make our business worthwhile As we nervously step into 2009 [...]

Will the proposed Employee Free Choice Act destroy the hotel industry's profitability by driving up workers' wages, as some owners argue? Or will it level the playing field between labor [...]

First New York, then Chicago and San Francisco: One by one, hotel worker contracts are being settled in major convention cities across the country, turning a year that once looked [...]

Hilton has dismissed rumours of a strike threat by housekeeping staff at its hotels in the US and Canada. Employees from 12 cities are in talks with the hotels giant [...]

The hotel workers union says Hilton hotels in New York routinely underpay their employees and are cavalier about job safety. Hilton executives dismiss the claims as a smokescreen and say [...]

Unite Here, the union representing hotel workers, and the hotel multi-employer group in Toronto are at the negotiating table attempting to hammer out a new deal after hotel employee contracts [...]

Though he won't take office till July 1, newly elected L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been credited with brokering a deal this month to end the 14-month labor dispute between [...]

HOW WOULD YOUR BUSINESS BE AFFECTED BY THE LOSS OF THE UK'S OPT-OUT FROM THE EU'S 48-HOUR WEEK? Initially we will be affected financially like everyone else. I think the [...]

New York hotels are awash with guests these days, but behind the beaming faces of doormen and hotel managers an extraordinary arms race is under way ahead of contract negotiations [...]

SAN FRANCISCO: Fourteen of San Francisco's top hotels are involved in a bitter public dispute with union employees that some say has tarnished the city's tourism image. At the heart [...]

Hotel labor contracts may not be on the radar screen for most planners, but maybe they should be - particularly for those planning large meetings in union cities such as [...]

NATIONAL REPORT--Fundamental differences between hotel management and labor are causing problems now and setting up the potential for an even bigger fight in 2006. The current dispute has left more [...]

Empty bedrooms and striking workers are causing major concerns for hotel managers in Athens as the Olympic Games gets under way in the Greek capital. However, hoteliers could blame themselves [...]

Marie Allen, a solicitor with law firm Steeles, examines the rights of employees to claim backdated holiday pay when the full leave entitlement hasn't been taken The problem A former [...]

Members of the Norwegian Graphic Federation went on strike over pay last Thursday, following unsuccessful attempts at mediation. The strike by the 560 members meant that Norway's most popular illustrated [...]

Compass Group has joined forces with the main hospitality and leisure unions to call for an end to unequal pay and conditions in the public sector. Last year the Government [...]

Ibis reaches 42 in Carlisle Budget hotel chain Ibis has opened a 102-bedroom property in Carlisle. The hotel, which is based in the new [pounds sterling]20m leisure development in the [...]

The Jurys Doyle hotel group came under fire in the Irish parliament in Dublin last week when a Labour Party member accused hoteliers of taking risks with staff safety. Kathleen [...]

The T&G union has lost its challenge for recognition at London's Dorchester hotel, Park Lane, after a decision that grants casual staff parity with their permanent colleagues. The dispute between [...]

Casual banqueting staff at London's Dorchester hotel could find themselves part of a ballot that will decide whether hotel management has to officially recognise the T&G union. Last month the [...]