News
Gansevoort Hotel: A conversation with two of our newest members
July 2, 2024 6:00 PM
In February 2024, the housekeeping staff at the Gansevoort Hotel joined our Union after an NLRB election. These workers organized in secret for two years, while enduring constant disrespect from managers, overwork, and an intense anti-union campaign. The Hotel Voice sat down with two of the workers who led the organizing drive, Danny Dhondup and Tsering Dorjee. Read more...
Join the Union’s 2024 Writing Contest!
July 2, 2024 5:34 PM, Hotel Voice, Spring 2024
Calling all budding writers and journalists! The Union is proud to announce the 22nd Annual Writing Contest. Read more...
2024 College Scholarship Winners
The Union’s scholarship program is one of the hard-won rights that members fought for during the 1985 city-wide strike. In the decades since, the program has awarded over $10 million to cover the education expenses of more than 1,200 children of HTC and Local 6 members. Read more...
Union takes another step to improve retirement benefits for Local 6 Club employees
June 17, 2024 5:55 PM
Last week, the Union’s Club Pension trustees proposed merging the Club and Hotel pension plans in an ongoing effort to improve benefits for Club employees. Read more from Local 6 Business Manager Rich Maroko...
Sign up for Delegate Trainings
Our Union is excited to announce that delegates can now enroll in our brand new Delegate Training Program. This program will give delegates the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of your contracts, the grievance and arbitration process, and the law. Read more...
A Letter from HTC President Rich Maroko: New Trainings for Union Delegates
June 4, 2024 5:53 PM
It is not enough to have the best hospitality contract in the world – if the terms of that contract aren’t enforced, it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. Over the last 18 months, we have been working on several major initiatives to make our Union even stronger at contract enforcement. The plan includes hiring more business agents, using artificial intelligence to catch more violations, introducing new technology to ensure grievances are effectively and efficiently processed, reinstituting a grievance officer to shepherd cases through the process, speeding up the arbitration procedures, and providing new trainings for the first line of contract enforcement: our union delegates. Read more...
Arbitrator Issues Adverse Decision on Starting Wage Rate
October 19, 2023 9:56 AM
The Arbitrator ruled that the hotel industry can pay the starting wage rate to union workers who take new jobs without having worked 12 of the last 24 months. Read more...
Off the Clock: The Triangle Fire Memorial
In November of 1909, more than 20,000 garment workers responsible for the manufacturing of women’s blouses — then known as “shirtwaists” — walked off their jobs in New York City in a strike led by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Read more...
Paying for childcare? You may be eligible for State funds
September 20, 2023 11:04 AM
Is child care a big expense for you and your family? Our Union can connect you with money from New York State to help. Read more...
Judge Throws Out Airbnb Lawsuit, Strict Regulations to Go Into Effect in September
August 10, 2023 10:35 AM
New York City’s Short-Term Rental Registration Law — also known as Local Law 18 — has survived a legal challenge from Airbnb, and will go into effect in early September. Read more...
Are You Interested in Becoming A Citizen?
“It is good for the nation for people to join it in the fullest way they can,”
-Ur M. Jaddou, the Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Becoming an American citizen affords people increased rights and privileges including the right to vote, become an elected official, keep your residency, receive federal scholarships, and obtain government benefits. The process of naturalization to become a US citizen can feel long and complicated, but your Union is offering support. The Union is partnering with the NYC Central Labor Council (NYC CLC) to help eligible permanent residents in navigating the naturalization process. Read more...
Fighting for Affordable Child Care
July 7, 2023 12:37 PM
For working parents, child care is an absolute necessity. Without it, holding down a full-time job is nearly impossible. Unfortunately, the cost of child care today is shockingly high and access is increasingly challenging.
Our Union is working to make child care affordable and more accessible for our members – through contract negotiations, legislation, and partnerships with other non-profits and coalition groups. There aren’t any simple, quick solutions. This effort will take time and all the tools at our disposal. Read more...
2023 NYC General Elections: Be a Deciding Vote!
With NYC City Council General Elections here, it’s time to visit the polls. Read more...
Join the Union’s 2023 Writing Contest!
Calling all budding writers and journalists! The Union is proud to announce the 21st Annual Writing Contest. Entries can be submitted by children and eligible dependents of Hotel and Gaming Trades Council and/or Local 6 members, who are high school students entering the 10th, 11th or 12th grades. All entries must be submitted by Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 11:59PM. Read more...
Members on the Industry Health Plan Can Use CityMD Starting May 1!
April 17, 2023 4:03 PM
We are excited to announce that the Benefit Funds have partnered with CityMD, which has urgent care clinics located throughout New York and New Jersey. This new partnership will allow members who have the Industry Health Plan to go to any CityMD location — for free — starting on May 1st. Read more...
Wall Street Journal: Union Hotel Workers in New York Suburbs Score Biggest Pay Raise in 100 Years
April 11, 2023 8:07 PM
Last week, our Union’s leadership announced a new Greater Regional Industry Wide Agreement (“GRIWA” for short) for nearly 7,000 members who work in Northern New Jersey, Westchester, Upstate New York, and Long Island. The Wall Street Journal released an exclusive about the groundbreaking new contract on Monday, highlighting the historic wage increases and benefits. Read more...
Two HTC Members at Rivers Casino Save a Life with CPR
March 8, 2023 10:45 AM
On Friday, January 13th, 2023, Rivers Casino security officer and HTC member Genetta Darling was standing at her post when she heard a commotion in the poker room. She turned around and saw a patron fall backwards off his stool; “I ran over, and immediately recognized the signs of cardiac arrest.” The 84-year-old patron was blue all over. Read more...
HTC Member Lisa Sinishtaj on Organizing Resorts World Hudson Valley
March 8, 2023 10:23 AM
Lisa Sinishtaj became a member of our Union in 2018. At the time, she was working at Resorts World Catskills, one of the ten gaming locations that have joined our ranks over the last decade. At the end of last year, Lisa transferred to the new Resorts World Hudson Valley in Newburgh, NY, where she played a role in helping 200 of her coworkers win Union representation – and the benefits that come with it. Lisa sat down for an interview with the Hotel Voice to discuss the Union’s most recent victory in the Hudson Valley. Read more...
The GRIWA is Expiring: What to Expect
February 24, 2023 5:04 PM
On March 31, 2023, the current Greater Regional Industry Wide Agreement (the “GRIWA”) will expire. Read more...
Workers at the Hard Rock Unanimously Vote YES to Ratify their First Union Contract!
February 24, 2023 4:34 PM
On the evening of December 15th, 2022, workers from the Hard Rock New York gathered around a table in our Union’s auditorium to count their ratification ballots. Read more...
