Vanessa Meade

Name: Hotel and Gaming Trades Council
Address: 707 8th Avenue (between 44th & 45th Streets), New York, New York, 10036, US
Telephone: (212) 245-8100
Price range: $

HTC Recording Secretary | Local 6 President

Vanessa began working as a Room Attendant at the Vista Hotel in 1982. She was soon elected as a union delegate by the co-workers in her department. When a terrorist bomb at the World Trade Center destroyed part of the Vista Hotel in 1993, she went to the union's headquarters to help find jobs for her coworkers. She became a Business Agent in 1994, a Vice President of Local 6 in 1997 and Executive Vice President in 2003. In 2020, she became Recording Secretary for the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council.