Approximately 10,000 hotel workers from Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt locations across the U.S. are on strike during the busy Labor Day weekend.
The workers, part of the UNITE HERE union, are fighting for higher wages and fair staffing and workloads. They say hotels took advantage of COVID-era staffing and service cuts that have never been restored.
“I’m on strike because I don’t want hotels to become the next airline industry,” said Christian Carbajal, who has worked at the Hilton Bayfront in San Diego for 15 years, in a press release. “I used to work in room service, but after COVID, they closed my department. Now I work in the grab-and-go market. Guests complain to me that they can no longer get a steak delivered up to the room, and the tips aren’t what they used to be. I’m making less than I used to, and now two families share my …