The largest hotel strike in US history begins with a strike in Los Angeles

Unite Hair Local 11, which represents thousands of chefs and workers in the fields of room cleaning, dishwashing, catering and reception in hotels in Los Angeles and Orange, said in a statement that its members are struggling to pay for housing costs in the cities in which they work and have already suffered from downsizing. Jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A spokesman for the league confirmed that hotel workers in the area, including those at the Intercontinental and Indigo hotels, were absent from work on Sunday before the Independence Day holiday on the Fourth of July.

The companies responsible for operating InterContinental and IndiGo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Los Angeles Times reported that contracts for workers at 62 Southern California hotels expired on June 30.

The league said the Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles’ largest hotel, reached an agreement with its employees just one day before their contracts expired.

The statement added that the association seeks to establish a housing fund for workers in the hotel sector and calls for better wages, health care and pension provision, and a safer work environment for workers.

And 96 percent of the hotel workers voted in favor of organizing a strike on the eighth of last June.

The Los Angeles area has become the scene of strikes and job threats in the past few months.

In the entertainment industry, a number of Hollywood writers left their jobs in early May as their association contracts expired.

Actors from the Screen Actors Guild said they would temporarily suspend their strike after the union reached an agreement with major studios on Friday to continue negotiations through mid-July.

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