If a contract agreement isn’t reached, a strike could begin as early as the Fourth of July weekend and would be the largest in modern U.S. history.
Unite Here Local 11 says bargaining for higher pay so that workers can afford housing is crucial as L.A. gears up to host the World Cup and the Olympics.“My youngest son has Down syndrome. I want to spend more time with my family. I want to not have to work two jobs,” he said. Ramirez said his wife works part time because their son requires special schooling that isn’t available near where they live.
“We’re 22 days from the expiration of the contract and there’s not a single nickel that they have offered as a raise for anyone in any of these hotels,” Petersen said. “It’s a total disrespect for their workers who sacrificed extraordinarily during this pandemic.” Entry-level hotel housekeepers might start at $20 to $22 an hour, said Carl Winston, a professor and director of the hospitality and tourism management program at San Diego State University.An earlier version of this article said hospitality workers in Los Angeles and Long Beach earn an average hourly wage of $39.31. That hourly rate is what is needed to afford an average two-bedroom apartment in L.A. and Long Beach, a union says.
Dartis said she is living paycheck to paycheck, even though she lives in a low-income building where rent is $1,080 per month. To pay for extracurricular activities for her daughter, who attends school in Inglewood, she sometimes pays other bills late. Every morning, housekeeper Francisa Gutierrez drives up to an hour and a half from San Bernardino to the InterContinental Los Angeles in downtown L.A.
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