From today’s NBC News:
Thousands of workers at 25 hotels across the country remained on strike for a second day Monday, demanding higher pay and the reversal of pandemic-era cuts, with members in more cities expected to join the strike.
On Sunday, around 10,000 hotel workers walked off the job, kicking off the strike during the busy Labor Day weekend at 25 hotels in eight cities, including San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston and Honolulu. The workers are represented by the UNITE HERE union and work for the Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt hotel chains.
In a statement, UNITE HERE said the workers are striking “after months of unresolved negotiations.”
In Connecticut, Hyatt Regency Greenwich employees carried signs that read “Respect our work” and “One job should be enough” as they advocated for themselves outside the hotel Monday. Some played drums, while others rang cowbells.
“Check out! Don’t check in!” some of the workers chanted, encouraging guests to leave the hotel.
Francisco Tobias, who said he’d been working at the hotel for about 30 years, said he was protesting for better pay, better health care, a pension and respect.
“After the pandemic, they just don’t care,” he said about his employer. “They just want to make the money, make the money, save the money — but nothing, they don’t give us anything.”
Tobias said that he and his colleagues used to have a cafeteria where they were served hot food but that now they get containers of cold food.
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