Hospitality workers are out of work as hotels recover without them

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'They're trying to make their money back by hurting us': Hotel staff are struggling to find work as their industry rebounds without them

"I had to decide which bill was more important than others," she said."I was talking to mycompany all the time to see if they'd give me more time to figure out how I can pay them."

"Staffing levels at our properties are best assessed hotel by hotel and are informed by market demand, local business environments, and recommendations from government and health authorities," a Hilton spokesperson said in statement to Insider."Labor continues to be the biggest issue facing our industry right now, and many hotels are quite actively hiring."

Unite Here, a union representing 300,000 hospitality workers in the US and Canada, says 98% of its members were out of work at one point in the pandemic. "It's just a huge mess," he said."The guests are very upset, and they take it out on the workers. That creates stress for the workers, and the workers are already doing double the work they were doing before."

 

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