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HTC members vote overwhelmingly to approve new IWA
A new contract with Hotel Association Bargaining Group was ratified with 99.4% in favor.
NYC tourism reaches new high in 2010
According to reports in the New York Times, Crain's New York, and NYC.gov, a record 48.7 million people visited New York City this past year, with the result that 2010 was also a record-breaking year for the number of hotel rooms sold. The continued flow of tourists into the city boosted the state's economy by $31 billion and also increased the number of those employed in the hospitality industry to its largest number ever.
A Look Back at 2019 and a Look Ahead to 2020
Hotel Voice, February 19, 2020 - As we look ahead to 2020 let’s also take a last look back at some of the significant events in our union during 2019. It’s a good reminder of what can be accomplished through our solidarity and determination. We began the year by announcing what is unquestionably the largest pension increase in the 81-year history of our union. This was particularly impressive when one realizes that at the time this increase was announced the HTC pension was already the largest pension anywhere in the hotel industry.
A Report from HTC President Rich Maroko
By HTC President Rich Maroko
As I write to you, over 295 million doses of the vaccine have been administered to Americans. As a result, our region is slowly coming back to life and with it, the tourism industry is gradually reopening. Dozens of union hotels have announced soft reopenings this summer and over 60% of our members in the casinos have already been recalled.
BREAKING NEWS: Support for Safe Hotels Act Reaches Supermajority in NYC Council
Just yesterday, support for the New York City Safe Hotels Act reached a supermajority in the NYC Council.
The Safe Hotels Act would provide some of the health and safety protections that we’ve won in our Union’s contracts like panic buttons, daily room cleaning, and security protections to all NYC hotel workers and would curb the use of exploitive subcontracting agencies in most hotels. Read more...
Japanese “no frills” hotel to break ground in Queens
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Japan-based Toyoko Inn Co. is set on bringing its own brand of no-frills, economy hotels to the United States, starting with New York City.
Workers at Park Hyatt Win First Contract
On Monday, June 15, 2015, workers at the Park Hyatt celebrated winning their first Union contract. Over 130 members from the Park Hyatt met with Hotel Trades Council Executive Vice President and General Counsel Rich Maroko and union staff to review the provisions of their first contract, which secures them guaranteed wage increases, the opportunity to enroll in the industry’s free family healthcare, a pension, and job security for the next eleven years. An overwhelming 98% voted to ratify the agreement.
Why de Blasio’s the Candidate for Working Families
Throughout most of the last century, if you had a job at a manufacturing plant, it was hard work, but it also meant stability and opportunity. Whether you worked with steel, textiles, rubber or any of the industries that fueled America's economy, it meant you could have a house, a car and the ability to put food on the table for your family.
While many of those jobs no longer exist, their legacy of unionized work creating a pathway to the middle class lives on in the hotel industry. Hotel workers are the modern-day manufacturing plant worker.
NYC Council Approves Hotel Worker Severance Bill 40 to 3
On Thursday, September 23rd, the New York City Council voted overwhelmingly to pass the Hotel Worker Severance Bill. The bill, designed to incentivize closed hotels to reopen, requires closed hotels with at least 100 guest rooms to either reopen and recall at least 25% of their staff by November 1st or pay $500 per week to laid off employees for up to 30 weeks. Read more...
