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US unions target the housing affordability crisis as their ‘biggest issue’

Organized labor across the country is now setting its sights on housing costs as rents and mortgages continue to soar

The Guardian - US

US hotel workers still fighting for basic benefits after ‘hot labor summer’

Thousands of hotel workers in southern California have gone on strike over 100 times since last July, with some still fighting for new union contracts

The Guardian - US

A hotel worker's 3-hour commute tells the story of LA's housing crisis and her strike

Long commutes are a key reason why LA hotel workers have been on rolling strikes since early July. And they have a unique solution for hotels to help them.

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Los Angeles: hotel workers’ strike ignites backlash among academics

Academics are boycotting their annual meeting after they say leadership spurned a union request to move online or cancel

The Guardian - US

Hotel workers kick off third wave of strikes in Hollywood, Pasadena

Hundreds of hotel workers in Hollywood and Pasadena walked out this morning, kicking off a third wave of rolling strikes to hit Southern California this summer.

Los Angeles Times

How Striking Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles

With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.

Capital & Main

Hotel, union negotiation fails to break stalemate; more walkouts ahead, union vows

Tensions rose Tuesday between the Southern California hotel operators and their striking workers during the first bargaining session since intermittent walkouts began July 1. Hotel representatives accused the union of failing to bargain in good faith, and Unite Here Local 11 vowed more strikes at hotels across Los Angeles and…

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Gustavo Arellano: On the picket line, a telling alliance between hotel workers and screenwriters

Oh, it was noisy Thursday afternoon outside the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, California, as more than 200 protesters marched near the entrance.

Los Angeles Times

The Truth About the Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Strike

Despite recent wins, union members still can’t afford to live anywhere near where they work.

Capital & Main

Gustavo Arellano: Three's not a crowd. Meet the co-presidents of the union behind the hotel workers' strike

LOS ANGELES — In a red-shirted sea of hundreds of striking hotel workers marching through downtown Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, Ada Briceño, Susan Minato and Kurt Petersen were just faces in the crowd.

Los Angeles Times

Southern California hotels hit by strike say union is unlawfully pushing housing agenda

LOS ANGELES — Amid tense negotiations over new contracts for thousands of local hotel housekeepers, receptionists and cooks, a group of Southern California hotels filed an unfair labor practice charge accusing Unite Here Local 11 of striking over policy proposals that have “nothing to do” with the employees it represents.

Los Angeles Times

LA hotel workers back on the job but say more strikes to come

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of service workers at 19 hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties returned to work Wednesday after three days of strikes over the busy Fourth of July weekend.

Los Angeles Times

‘We deserve more’: hotel workers vote to authorize strike in California

Decision affects 15,000 hotel workers who are pushing for raises, affordable healthcare and safe workloads and staffing levels

The Guardian - US

Beverly Hills voters to decide the fate of ultra-luxury LVMH hotel project

In a city whose name is shorthand for exclusivity and wealth, the future of a planned ultra-opulent hotel will soon be decided by the most democratic of means: an election.

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L.A. Hotel Workers Fight an Uphill Battle to Live Where They Work

Making developers who stoke the housing crisis repair the damage they’ve done.

Los Angeles Times

Workers at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont win first union contract

LOS ANGELES — Hotel workers at the famed Chateau Marmont voted unanimously to ratify their first union contract Wednesday evening.

Los Angeles Times

Chateau Marmont agrees to let workers unionize, cancels plans for members-only hotel

The owner of Los Angeles' famed Chateau Marmont has agreed to let its workers unionize and abandoned plans to convert the Hollywood hangout for the rich and beautiful to a members-only hotel.

The Guardian - US

Los Angeles hotel workers fight for panic buttons amid sexual harassment

Push for ballot petition that would mandate safety protections, limit workloads, set wage standards, and extend worker retention rules

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‘Jay-Z needs to decide which side he’s on’: Chateau Marmont workers to picket star’s Oscars after-party

Jay-Z and Beyonce’s ultra-exclusive post-Oscars bash runs afoul of a worker boycott of the famed hotel, which laid off hundreds when the pandemic hit

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