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Over 250 HTC members attend BUNY rally for union jobs and safer working conditions
Over 250 HTC members turned out at Borough Hall to rally for union jobs and safer working conditions. HTC joined many other unions as a part of Build Up NYC to get the word out. Two workers have died at construction sites in Brooklyn in the last two months and union members came forward to say enough!
A New Year’s Message from HTC President Rich Maroko
By HTC President Rich Maroko
Happy New Year. I hope that this message finds you and your loved ones healthy and doing well. As we end this incredibly difficult year and enter 2021, I wanted to give you all a sense of what I expect for our Union in the year ahead. Read more...
HTC Endorses Queens Borough President Donovan Richards for Re-Election!
On Tuesday, May 4th, HTC President Rich Maroko joined Queens Borough President Donovan Richards to announce our Union’s endorsement of Richards’ re-election campaign.
President Maroko outlined for a crowd of HTC members why Donovan Richards is the right choice for working people in Queens, “Donovan has been one of the City’s fiercest advocates of workers, especially hospitality workers. As a city council member, he was a huge champion of HTC and its members.” Read more...
Pension Increase for 27,000 HTC Members on January 1st!
In fact, we are sure that this will be a very happy new year for many Hotel Trades Council members who are thinking of retiring in the near future, as well as for all others who are thinking more long term. 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.
Find alternative healthcare
Updated December 23, 2020 3:24 PM
During this catastrophe, the federal government utterly failed the people they are supposed to serve and the toll has been more horrific even than most American wars.
Our Union, however, has moved mountains to win extraordinary protections and special benefits to assist the workers we represent to get through this emergency. The most important example has been the Union’s success in persuading and compelling a devastated industry to continue to fund healthcare coverage for most of the 40,000 workers we represent (most of whom are laid off) over a period of many additional months.
We have compiled this guide about the many alternative healthcare options that will be available to you should you lose coverage in the upcoming months. Read more...
Using our political power to pass safety legislation in New Jersey
June 26, 2020 4:42 PM
After weeks of working with our allies in the NJ State Legislature and the Governor’s Office, our Union is proud to announce that a new law has been signed in New Jersey that will protect hotel workers’ safety and jobs in the era of COVID-19 and beyond. The law will require daily room cleans, EPA-certified cleaning agents, and minimum staffing at the front desk. This law is the very first of its kind anywhere in the country. It went into effect on Thursday, June 25, 2020.
Judge rules Tavern on the Green can auction assets
A ruling by a U.S. bankruptcy judge cleared the way for the auction of Tavern on the Green assets scheduled for January 13, 14, and 15, 2010.
HTC Pickets Woolworth in Times Square in Solidarity with Sit-Ins Across the South
In February 1960, four brave Black college students walked into a “whites only” lunch counter at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth and sat down, igniting a protest movement to end segregation that spread across the country. The students – Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil – each ordered a cup of coffee and after being refused service, sat quietly in protest until the store closed. The student activists returned the next day in greater numbers and stoically bore the harassment and verbal abuse by white customers. By the third day, the number of peaceful protestors had swelled to the hundreds.
As the Greensboro sit-ins gained national attention, students across the South organized similar sit-ins at Woolworth and other segregated establishments. The activists were often met with aggression, police violence, and even bomb threats. In New York City, our Union organized a picket line of its own outside the Times Square Woolworth in solidarity with the civil rights activists. Read more...
Reminder: Blood Drive Is on May 27
It’s ten minutes that can mean a lifetime for someone who is ill. Donated blood keeps people alive, makes surgeries successful and does wonders for medical research.
