News
Our union and health benefits featured in The American Prospect
February 8, 2012 7:00 PM
Our union and our benefit funds' health care plan were recently featured in two glowing American Prospect articles.
Our new industry-wide contract makes national news
February 7, 2012 7:00 PM
Many news sources including the New York Times, the New York Daily News and the Huffington Post ran stories about our union's new Industry Wide Agreement.
Members celebrate tentative agreement to renew IWA
February 7, 2012 7:00 PM
Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward announced Tuesday, at a Radio City Music Hall membership meeting, that our union successfully reached an early tentative agreement with the Hotel Association Bargaining Group to renew our industry-wide union contract which was scheduled to expire this summer.
Women hotel workers in Cambodia fight illegal mass firings
December 4, 2011 7:00 PM
Workers unfairly terminated for trade union organizing at the five star Angkor Village Hotel and Angkor Village Botanical Resort Hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia, are fighting for their rights, their jobs and their union - and need your support.
Chamber of Commerce falsely portrays hotel case to attack NLRB
November 27, 2011 7:00 PM
An anti-union front organization set up and controlled by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is using a recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") involving our union to ludicrously portray the government agency as "activist" and "anti-employer."
Will “Occupy Wall Street” awaken a pro-democracy movement in America?
November 13, 2011 7:00 PM
To the alarm and indignation of the rich and powerful who rule the United States, a group of audacious, creative, and gutsy activists have touched the imagination and the conscience of the world by "occupying" a small park near the symbolic heart of global capitalism ââ¬â Wall Street.
A More Perfect Union
November 8, 2011 2:59 PM
Hypocrite Florida Senator Marco Rubio “outraged” at getting caught lying
October 23, 2011 8:00 PM
Tea Party hero, and possible Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is righteously indignant that the Washington Post has caught him lying to the public about his background.
At least New York’s Attorney General is not in anybody’s pocket
October 3, 2011 8:00 PM
Using confusing schemes that would make Charles Ponzi blush, control over legally purchased government officials, and unscrupulous salesmanship, America's thieving bankers (not all bankers, just the thieving ones) have caused untold destruction to the nation's economy and terrible suffering to millions of people here and around the world.
Boathouse workers win hard-earned victory!
September 28, 2011 8:00 PM
Anyone who goes to work for the Boathouse restaurant in the future owes a debt of gratitude and respect to the courageous group of Boathouse employees who fought and suffered many hardships to obtain justice and a better life for themselves, their families, and each other.
Tentative union contract signed with Boathouse.
September 20, 2011 8:00 PM
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.
Massey Energy’s “corporate risk-taking” killed 29 miners
September 14, 2011 8:00 PM
he explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in 2010 took the lives of 29 miners and devastated their families and communities. Two major investigations into its causes have made absolutely clear what the miners knew long before the April 5, 2010, explosion happened: the mine was a death trap, and Massey Energy, the owner, didn't care.
New hotel for West 37th Street parking lot site
September 14, 2011 8:00 PM
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, a 300-room hotel will be going up on West 37th Street in midtown Manhattan. The site to be developed, a parking lot, is between 8th and 9th Avenues. The article described the current New York City hotel market as being "particularly alluring for developers" since tourism, business travel, and hotel room rates have all been on the rise.
More hotels open in Brooklyn hotel hub
September 14, 2011 8:00 PM
Two more hotels opened in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn this summer. The Union Hotel, a 43-room property on Degraw Street between Third and Fourth Avenues, was the first of the two to open. The Fairfield Inn New York Brooklyn opened a month later; it is a Marriott property.
Largest NYC hotel project since 2002 announced
September 14, 2011 8:00 PM
Marriott International, Inc. announced it and Granite Broadway Development will together develop a new 68-story, 639-room hotel project in Manhattan. The Marriott news release specifies that the hotel-on-top-of-a-hotel will be 752 feet and 9 inches high, making it the tallest structure of its type in New York City.
Number of hotels in Lower Manhattan triples
September 14, 2011 8:00 PM
The Alliance for Downtown New York has released a report on the condition of Lower Manhattan ten years after its devastation on September 11, 2001. It concludes that Lower Manhattan has made a stunning recovery, one remarkable in terms of both growth and momentum.
Another new hotel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
September 14, 2011 8:00 PM
The number of new, ground-up Manhattan hotels continues to grow, as is evidenced by the recent opening of The Nolitan. Located at 30 Kenmare, on the corner of Kenmare and Elizabeth Streets, the 55-room boutique hotel opened early in August.
Boathouse management’s faulty arithmetic and logic
August 28, 2011 8:00 PM
97 out of 140 permanent Boathouse employees (69%) have voted for the union, with their feet, by picketing the restaurant. That includes 37 permanent workers who were illegally (i.e., temporarily) fired, whom the National Labor Relations Board intends to reinstate, and 60 more permanent employees who walked off the job in solidarity with their fired co-workers.
Marriage Equality Act passes in historic 33-29 vote
August 21, 2011 8:00 PM
On Friday, June 24, 2011, the New York State Senate passed the Marriage Equality Act, voting 33-29 to allow same sex marriages in our state. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law at 11:55 pm, enabling it to become law within an hour and a half of the Senate approving it. The law became effective 30 days later, at midnight of July 24.
Boathouse workers strike against unfair labor practices
August 12, 2011 8:00 PM
60 Boathouse employees have walked off their jobs and were joined on the picket line by 37 of their co-workers who were illegally terminated in retaliation for organizing with our union. The strike started at noon on Tuesday, August 9.
