Hotel Workers Protest in Los Angeles: Demanding Better Labor Conditions and Fair Wages

2023-07-11 02:02:51

It has been made a protest of hotel employees in Los Angeles to demand better Labor conditions.

This is the second time that unionized workers, mostly Latinos, They protest for better working conditions since the pandemic.

Hotel workers protest in Los Angeles

Pots, pans and buckets to make a cacerolazo It was what the employees took in the hotel zone in the vicinity of the Los Angeles International Airport.

Both cooks, staff cleaning, janitors and dependents of the sectoris mostly Latino, showed up to continue the demonstrations.

It should be noted that the current collective bargaining agreement 32 thousand workers in 60 hotels in southern California expired on June 30.

It was because of this that the strike began on July 2 not having reached an agreement.

The main demand of the union with a presence in Arizona and California is to request an increase of eleven dollars in the next three years.

In the first year it it would increase by five and the other two years it would increase by three dollars annually.

It should be noted that there are also other petitions related to the health, housing and the process of recruiting new applicantsto protect people without papers who need a job.

For its part, employers only offer an increase in $8.75 gradually over five yearsreason for which it was not possible to advance in the negotiations.

The union section has kept service to a minimum, which has kept 20 hotels in operation.

There were three days of work stoppage that affected not only Los Angelesbut also to the city of Santa Monica and Orange CountySouth of the city.

Although the strike was approved by the workers of 60 hotelsMany did not want to participate for fear of reprisals.

With information from The country.

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