The contract between the hotels and Unite Here Local 11, which represents up to 15,000 workers employed at 65 major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties, expired at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
Workers gathered for a rally outside the InterContinental Hotel in downtown L.A. after the strike was announced.Unite Here said that once the Westin contract is ratified, the 600 workers at the Bonaventure will enjoy:-- affordable, excellent family healthcare-- pension contribution increases so that workers can retire with dignity and
"With these extraordinary raises, I will no longer have to choose between paying my rent and putting food on the table for my family," one employee, Nancy Cerrato of Westin's housekeeping department, said in a union statement. "We have given our lives to this industry. We deserve respect and to be able to afford to live in the city where we work.
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