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Tavern on the Green meeting held
The Union held a meeting with Tavern on the Green strike captains last week to answer questions and provide an update.
Remembering Ernie Peters, 1935-2020
May 29, 2020 2:00 PM
The union was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Ernie Peters, a longtime HTC Regional Director and a Local 6 Business Agent and Vice President. Peters passed away on May 26. He was 85 years old and had been a member of our union for 68 years.
Throughout his long tenure at our union Peters was a strong representative of our members and a fierce enforcer of the contract. He was well respected by members and management alike. Read more...
Ernie Peters, HTC Regional Director and Local 6 Vice President
The union was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Ernie Peters, a longtime HTC Regional Director and a Local 6 Business Agent and Vice President. Peters passed away on May 26. He was 85 years old and had been a member of our union for 68 years.
Throughout his long tenure at our union Peters was a strong representative of our members and a fierce enforcer of the contract. He was well respected by members and management alike.
Read the full tribute to Ernie here.
Members Celebrate Tentative Agreement to Renew IWA at Radio City Music Hall
On February 7th, 2012, nearly 6,000 union members packed Radio City Music Hall to hear HTC President Peter Ward detail the tough negotiations with the Hotel Association of New York City, Inc. (the organization that represents many of the city's hotel owners).
Despite the anti-union sentiment growing in the United States and a precarious economy, our Union’s leadership managed to extend the Union’s Industry Wide Agreement (“the IWA”) for 7 years. Not only did the leadership fight back against the industry’s outrageous list of give backs, but they won big wage increases, increased funding for the union’s pension and medical fund, and won vital job security protections in the new contract.
HTC and the Little Rock Nine
“This year marks the 60th anniversary of our union honoring the Little Rock Nine — a group of incredibly brave students who were the center of the battle to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and who even today serve as an enduring symbol of the courage and resolve of the civil rights movement and the fight for equality.”
Those were the words of Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward, on Tuesday, June 12, when the ties between our union and the Little Rock Nine officially spanned 60 years at a luncheon held in Gallagher’s Steak House.
More Criminal Justice Reform Measures Enacted in New York
Hotel Voice — April 30, 2019
"As many of you know from an editorial we published in Hotel Voice in 2017, our union has been working closely with the Innocence Project on criminal justice reform. It is my belief that this is the single most important civil rights issue in the United States, followed closely by immigration reform. The unfair incarceration of poor, disadvantaged and working class people who disproportionately are Black and Latino is a stain on the soul of our country."
-HTC President Peter Ward
HTC and Unite Here stick with de Blasio
The Hotel Trades Council and Unite Here will be supporting Bill de Blasio in his race for public advocate this fall and plan to launch an aggressive campaign on his behalf.
Cuomo Announces $1 Billion, 1.2 Million Square Foot Expansion Of Javits Center
On January 7th, Governor Cuomo unveiled a $1 billion dollar expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
Remembering Former Local 6 President Michael Simo
Former Local 6 President Michael Simo, a major force at our union for more than 20 years, passed away on December 17, 2012.
Tentative union contract signed with Boathouse.
A tentative union contract was signed between the Boathouse restaurant and the Hotel Trades Council on Wednesday, September 21, 2011. A meeting is scheduled for Thursday for striking workers to vote to approve the agreement. The union has agreed to stop picketing the restaurant immediately.
