(3 Jul 2023)
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Los Angeles, California - 3 July 2023
1. Close-up pan, striking workers marching in circle in front of hotel holding signs and banging drums
Headline: Workers strike at major southern California hotels
ANNOTATION: Bellhops, front desk agents, and many other hotel workers picketed again on Monday to demand better pay and benefits.
2. Various, striking workers across street marching
ANNOTATION: The strike began early Sunday amid holiday celebrations and a major anime convention in Los Angeles.
ANNOTATION: Contracts expired at midnight Friday at more than 60 hotels, including properties owned by major chains such as Marriott and Hilton.
ANNOTATION: The strike affects about half of the 32,000 hospitality works the union represents across Southern California and Arizona.
3. Pan, tourists with luggage walk past marchers
ANNOTATION: A coalition of more than 40 hotels accused union leaders of canceling a scheduled bargaining sessions and refusing to the table.
4. Close-up people marching in circle
ANNOTATION: The union is urging people not to eat, sleep or meet at the hotels to support the strikers.
ANNOTATION: But it wasn’t immediately clear whether the strike resulted in guests checking out early or lacking services.
STORYLINE:
Workers picketed major Southern California hotels again Monday after walking off the job during the July Fourth weekend to demand better pay and benefits.
The strike by bellhops, front desk agents, room attendants, cooks, servers and dishwashers began early Sunday in Los Angeles and Orange counties just as summer tourism ramps up. Employers accused the union of failing to negotiate.
Contracts expired at midnight Friday at more than 60 hotels, including properties owned by major chains such as Marriott and Hilton. The strike affects about half of the 32,000 hospitality workers the union represents across Southern California and Arizona.
The walkout comes amid holiday celebrations and a major anime convention in Los Angeles. The union, on its website, urged guests to “not eat, sleep or meet” at the striking hotels to support the workers. But it wasn't immediately clear whether the strike resulted in guests checking out early or lacking services.
It's the latest action by a restive labor movement in California.
The soaring cost of living in greater Los Angeles is a significant problem for hotel workers, according to the union.
Talks with other hotels — including the Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons Regent Beverly Wilshire and Anaheim Hilton, near Disneyland — were at a stalemate. A coalition of more than 40 hotels involved in talks accused union leaders of canceling a scheduled bargaining session and refusing to come to the table.
The work stoppage had been anticipated, and the properties are “fully prepared to continue to operate these hotels and to take care of our guests as long as this disruption lasts,” said Keith Grossman, a spokesperson for the coalition.
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