Hotel Workers

NYC Hotels To Equip Workers With Panic Alarms

AP | Posted 04.09.2012

NEW YORK — Hotels in New York City have agreed to equip their employees with panic alarms that would summon help in case of an emergency. New Y...

Dave Jamieson

Working Poor Stiffed Millions In Wages: Lawsuit

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.09.2012

More than a dozen low-level hotel workers in Indianapolis have filed a class-action lawsuit against ten of the city's hotels and a labor staffing agen...

Heavy Lifting: Hotel Housekeepers Reprise Farm Workers' Struggle for Safer Working Conditions

Donald Cohen | Posted 10.02.2011

Donald Cohen

Today, hotel housekeepers are asking their employers to let them use long-handled mops to prevent back injury. Forty years ago, farm workers in California's fields made the same request.

WATCH: Union Files Complaint Over Hyatt Heat Lamp Incident

Posted 09.27.2011

Unite Here Local 1, a union representing some 170 Park Hyatt Chicago hotel workers who have been without a contract for nearly two years, announced Th...

Sex Scandal Is Peephole Into Manhattan Hotel Life

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 09.12.2011

Shirin Sadeghi

The incident with DSK and the maid hasn't shattered any myths about power and sex, but it has left hotel staff in New York, and particularly on West 44th Street, shaken.

Union Hyatt Regency Workers Hold One-Day Strike

Posted 08.20.2011

Union workers at Chicago's Hyatt Regency launched a one-day strike Monday at the 151 E. Wacker Drive location as they called for better working condit...