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BC Hotel Workers win International Solidarity as Struggle Continues

June 4, 2021 Sam Gates, Ray Goerke, Mason Kerr

BC Hotel workers are continuing their struggle to defend their jobs and their livelihoods against the ruthless hotel management. Affected hotel workers, many of them members of Unite Here Local 40, are fighting for the right of recall, which is the right to be rehired after a lay-off at their previous pay rate with the […]

Unionized Hotel Workers Win Battle in Fight for their Livelihoods

March 17, 2021 Sam Gates, Ray Goerke, Mason Kerr, Brielle Smith

Members of Unite Here Local 40 have won an important victory. Over 500 laid-off workers at the Hyatt, Pinnacle, and Westin hotels have finally secured the “right to recall,” that is, to be rehired at their previous pay rate with the same accrued benefits. The workers’ contracts previously guaranteed temporarily laid-off employees their jobs back […]