The New York Hotel Trades Council

Apply now for 2020 College Scholarships!

The Vito J. Pitta scholarship program and the Hotel Trades Council Division A scholarship program are now accepting applications for their 2020 awards. These programs provide an outstanding opportunity for members’ children to supplement the ever growing high cost of college Read more...
Here Are the 2019 Writing Contest Winners

In an exercise that showed the enormous talent in our union family, high school students from grades 10 through 12 submitted scores of entries into the 2019 writing competition. More than half the essays and almost half of the narratives written by the students had immigration as their subject, and many of those explained how the union benefited their families. Read more...
NY Times - Airbnb Suffers Big Defeat in Jersey City. Here’s What That Means.

The new restrictions were a major defeat for Airbnb as it prepares to go public and the latest in a string of laws that cities around the world have passed to regulate the home-sharing industry’s explosive growth. The Jersey City regulations gained steam following concerns that the platform’s 3,000 listings, many run by large-scale investors, were pushing often-unruly tourists into residential areas. Read more...
NY Daily News - Manhattan hotel workers ‘traumatized’ after new boss fires them for union push

"Sam Chang, the hotel mogul who’s come under fire for getting tax rebates while receiving city subsidies to house the homeless, has also attracted the ire of organized labor." Read more...
NY Daily News - Gov. Cuomo calls for probe into firing of dozens of NYC hotel workers

"The axing of four dozen downtown hotel workers has caught the eye of Gov. Cuomo, who directed the state Labor Department on Tuesday to launch an investigation into the mass firing." Read more...
$408,000 in Scholarships Awarded to 34 High School Seniors

It was a day of celebration on June 21, when 34 children of our union’s members were awarded a total of $408,000 in college scholarships. It was by far the largest amount of money ever awarded in a single year since the program’s inception in 1987. To date, the scholarship program has now awarded a total of $8,768,000 in grants to 1,080 students. It is money well spent. Read more...
More Criminal Justice Reform Measures Enacted in New York

"Institutions like unions have a responsibility to do more than just advocate for the relatively small group of workers they represent on a day-to-day basis in the work place. Our work should be dedicated to changing and improving conditions in society that our members, their families and other working people need." —HTC President Peter Ward Read more...
Pension Increase for 27,000 HTC Members on January 1st!

The Board of Trustees of the Industry-Wide Agreement Pension Fund has voted to enact what is by far the largest pension increase in the 80-year history of our union. This is particularly impressive when one realizes the HTC pension is already the largest pension anywhere in the hotel industry. Read more...

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