UNITE HERE Local 11 is the union of more than 32,000 workers in hotels, restaurants, airports, sports arenas & convention centers in So. California & Arizona.
Today
@FairmontMiramar
security officers attacked striking workers at their hotel. Our members won’t give in to bully tactics at the negotiating table or the picket line.
#SoCalHotelStrike
BREAKING: Southern California hotel workers are ON STRIKE! Thousands walked off the job at properties across DTLA & Santa Monica. Dozens more properties remain without a Union contract. Visiting the area? Don't be a scab! Where are we striking? Learn more ⤵️
#SoCalHotelStrike
NOW: Hundreds of protesters sitting in on Century Boulevard near LAX airport, risking arrest to support working people who are being priced out & forced to commute hours to work.
Hospitality workers are
#readytostrike
and we know who has our backs
#1u
BREAKING: Dozens of striking hotel housekeepers rally to call on
@taylorswift13
to support their fight for a wage that enables them to afford to live in Los Angeles.
They ask her to honor their struggle and postpone her concerts.
#SoCalHotelStrike
BREAKING: Dodger Stadium workers vote 99% to authorize strike ahead of MLB All-Star Game
Workers employed by concessionaire
@LevyRestaurants
a subsidiary of food service giant
@compassgroupusa
seek a fair union contract. ⚾️
Three days before
@taylorswift13
kicks off her Era Tour at SoFi Stadium, dozens of hotel housekeepers are delivering a letter asking her to postpone her tour unless the hotels that are set to receive millions of dollars of profit from her tour agree to pay a living wage.
🚨BREAKING🚨: MORE Southern California hotel workers walk out on strike! From Hollywood to San Pedro, thousands more join the
#SoCalHotelStrike
– Traveling to LA? Don’t be a scab! Who’s on strike? Read on ⤵️
BREAKING NEWS! After three months of rolling strikes, second L.A. hotel,
@millennbiltmore
Biltmore Los Angeles reaches tentative agreement with union
#SoCalHotelStrike
When we strike, we win!
🚨🚨BREAKING: Hundreds MORE hotel workers walk out, expanding the
#SoCalHotelStrike
to Beverly Hills and Century City – Traveling to LA? Don’t be a scab! Who’s on strike? Read on ⤵️
After driving 2,500 miles across the southland for a 10-day Freedom Ride, hundreds of members, faith leaders and community allies marched on to the National Mall to push for urgent voting rights legislation.
This is what democracy looks like!
#FreedomRide2021
#UniteHere
BREAKING: New wave of hotel worker strikes began early this morning in response to the failure of hotel companies to provide an economic proposal at last Thursday’s negotiations.
#SoCalHotelStrike
Who’s on strike? ROLL CALL
➡️ Le Meridien Delfina Santa Monica
🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Thousands of hotel workers are back on picket lines as the
#SoCalHotelStrike
sweeps across LA and Santa Monica. Traveling to LA for the
@APSAtweets
conference? Don’t be a scab! Who’s on strike?
BREAKING: Second wave 🌊 of STRIKES at Southern California hotels! Thousands more from new properties around
#LAX
have walked off the job. Dozens more remain without a Union contract. Visiting the area? Don’t be a scab! Where are we striking now? Learn more ⤵️
#SoCalHotelStrike
VIOLENCE AT HILTON HOTEL: Security
@HotelMayaDT
forcibly relocated striking workers w/ chain link fence while a guest ran around the fence & punched a worker in the head. Violence at the hands of hotel security or while they stand by is WRONG! That’s why we filed a ULP yesterday.
🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Workers at the Holiday Inn LAX are BACK ON STRIKE after negotiations this week where bosses (enjoying record profits) made proposals that would DESTROY the best healthcare plan for hotel workers in the country.
#SoCalHotelStrike
Excited to hear the one and only Jane Fonda talk about standing with workers at the Chateau Marmont during her speech
@LAANE
‘s Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon today!
#W4NLA
Be like
@Janefonda
and
#BoycottChateauMarmont
✊🏽
MORE workers on
#Strike
in Anaheim!
@HiltonAnaheim
workers walked off the job this morning. We’re not making the beds, cooking your meals, or taking out the trash. We’re here to win a fair contract.
#SoCalHotelStrike
We made history last night!
Irvine became the first City in OC to pass protection for hotel housekeepers!
The law will provide fair compensation for heavy workloads and protections from sexual assault, similar to laws already passed in
#LB
,
#SaMo
,
#WeHo
and
#LA
.
📢Chateau Marmont and UNITE HERE Local 11 Reach Historic Union Contract!
An immediate 25% wage increase for returning non-tipped workers. Housekeepers, for example, will earn $25.00 an hour within one year.
Free family health insurance
🎥🚨VIDEO: This morning union activists outside the Embassy Suites hotel in Glendale were hosed down by a hotel manager.
Tell owner of Embassy Suites in Glendale to stop using violence against workers.
BOYCOTT ALERT 🚨
Hotel workers at the
@HotelMayaDT
Long Beach,
@Lagunacliffs
Marriott Dana Point, and
@FairmontMiramar
in Santa Monica are calling for a boycott because of management’s use or condoning of violence during the largest hotel strike in U.S. history!
Read more ⬇️
The dignity of work must always be promoted and protected. I support
@UNITEHERE11
in their fight for fair wages and benefits. No Democratic candidate should cross the picket line.
🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Thousands of hotel workers from 22 (‼️) join
#SoCalHotelStrike
across LA, Santa Monica, WEHO in largest wave of walkouts.
Traveling to LA? Don’t be a scab! Who’s on strike? 👀⬇️
I won’t cross the
@UniteHere11
picket line to attend next week’s debate. We must live our values and there is nothing more core to the Democratic Party than the fight for working people. I support
@UniteHere11
in their fight for the compensation and benefits they deserve.
.
@UniteHere11
is fighting for better wages and benefits—and I stand with them. The DNC should find a solution that lives up to our party's commitment to fight for working people. I will not cross the union's picket line even if it means missing the debate.
We just learned that
@InterMiamiCF
is coming to play the Los Angeles Football Club with Lionel Messi, and they are slated to stay at the
@FairmontMiramar
where workers walked out on strike this AM
@TeamMessi
Hospitality workers and our allies here in the street near LAX. We’re ready to do what it takes—including risking arrest in mass acts of non-violent civil disobedience & going on strike—to ensure we can live with dignity in the cities where we work
#worthmore
#1u
Next presidential
#DemocraticDebate
threatened by looming labor dispute at Loyola Marymount University. LMU subcontracts food service operations to
@SodexoUSA
. The workers, UNITE HERE Local 11 members, have been in contract negotiations since March.
Crowd goes wild for Walter Almendarez, bellman at Chateau Marmont for 26 years, as he wins tonight’s Leadership Award.
“I never saw myself as a leader, but when the hotel fired us, I realized I needed to fight back for myself, my coworkers & my family.”
#BoycottChateauMarmont
Andres’s father Cristobal Guardado is a hardworking cook in financial hardship because of
#COVD19
shutdown. Andres had taken a second job to help his family &
@lasdhq
deputies killed Andres as he was starting his shift.
#AdiosVillanueva
.
@ChefJohnTesar
is the celebrity chef at the Knife Modern Steak restaurant
@Lagunacliffs
. Direct quote to striking workers:
"Take your union & shove it up your ass. Suck my d**k. You're a bad person. You're a bad person. You're a lazy pendeja."
@AimHosp
@UCPrezDrake
LMU's foodservice workers appreciate the solidarity from
@BernieSanders
, even when honoring our picket line over stalled contract negotiations w/
@sodexoUSA
could affect his participation in
#DemDebate
#1u
I stand with the workers of
@UniteHere11
on campus at Loyola Marymount University fighting Sodexo for a better contract. I will not be crossing their picket line.
UNITE HERE Local 11 announcing terms of the contract agreement members just ratified at 34 hotels. Workers won everything they struck for: wages, healthcare, pensions, fair workloads & growth. But we’re not done until we’re all done
#SoCalHotelStrike
🚨Aaron Sorkin, his film crew, actors including Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem
@BardemAntarctic
and
@sagaftra
, honored the
#BoycottChateauMarmont
and pulled filming of the major production Being the Ricardos from the hotel due to the ongoing labor dispute.
The workers at LA’s 2nd BIGGEST hotel are ON STRIKE at the InterContinental DTLA.
#SoCalHotelStrike
(What about the 1st BIGGEST hotel in LA? They did the right thing and settled a fair contract with their workers! *hint hint*)
Bonus reply: Yes, it seems bigger IS better 🙃
Congratulations to the workers at the
@BeverlyWilshire
, who just announced they reached a tentative contract agreement!
Now 10 hotels have signed tentative agreements. Who will be next? 👀
#SoCalHotelStrike
#1u
BREAKING NEWS: Workers file complaint against "a pattern of violent incidents and property destruction at picket lines where workers have been on strike, specifically at the [
@FairmontMiramar
]...[
@HotelMaya
]...and [
@LagunaCliffs
] Marriott..."
🧵⬇️
One person risking arrest today is Jennifer Flores, a front desk agent whose mother is a room attendant in the same hotel.
Here, Jennifer's son looks for his mom among the hundreds currently sitting on Century Boulevard. The moment when he finds her…
#1u
#GoodTrouble
Big escalation in the Los Angeles hotel strike:
@UNITEHERE11
is calling a boycott for all conventions in the city.
“We’re asking them to stay away from Los Angeles,” union co-president tells me.
📽️CW: foul language, bad behavior
ICYMI, this is how John Tesar, "celebrity chef" behind the Knife Modern Restaurant at the
@Lagunacliffs
, addressed striking workers. The Laguna Cliffs is owned by
@UofCalifornia
Retirement System and is managed by
@AimHosp
.
via
@PageSix
“I think what management was trying to do was divide us. But I think it backfired and it brought us together and closer,” said David, bellman at the
@HotelMayaDT
, about the latest outbreak of violence against hotel workers protesting.
Via
@NBCLA
#SolidaritySummer
#hopeoverfear
The iconic
#BeverlyHilton
is one of many hotels in the LA-area with an expired contract that could go on strike at any minute. Workers are already picketing there. Check daily if you’re planning on coming to Beverly Hills to make sure you don’t end up at a hotel on strike.
“Personally, I’m on strike because I can’t pay the rent. Food is too expensive,” said Lilia Sotelo, a striking housekeeper @ Sheraton Gateway LA Hotel, who makes $19.80 an hour and pays $1,800 a month for a two-bedroom in Hawthorne.
#SoCalHotelStrike
NOW: As workers across industries come together & take a stand this
#unionsummer
, leaders representing 2.1M CA workers announce their pledge of financial support for hotel workers who have been leading the largest wave of hotel strikes in modern history.
#1u
NEW: Predominantly Latino union workforce at the
@UofCalifornia
-pension-owned
@LagunaCliffs
walked out on
#ULPstrike
to protest abuse of & demand permanent hiring of Black workers that the company brought in as temporary strikebreakers.
#SolidarityForever
NOW: Direct from those sitting in the street:
"We just sang happy birthday to a 95 year old woman getting arrested for the first time
"For the first time ON HER BIRTHDAY."
And in DTLA, thousands of striking hotel workers have marched to the corner of Olympic & Figueroa, near LA LIVE. Reminder: LA hotel workers have called for a BOYCOTT of Los Angeles until we settle our labor dispute.
#SoCalHotelStrike
@APSAtweets
“Dirty rooms and nonstop noise will be the only amenities” for professors coming into town for the (
@APSAtweets
) conference, said
@kpetersen11
, co-president of Unite Here Local 11
Yesenia, housekeeper on strike at the Hyatt LAX: "I know that we all, united, will be able to win this battle.
I ask Ms. Taylor Swift to honor the struggle of us women hospitality workers across Los Angeles and postpone her concerts until we have a living wage."
🚨Los Angeles Hotel Strike Leads To Convention Boycott | HuffPost Impact
“If tourism doesn’t pay workers a living wage, then this city will continue to collapse.” -
@kpetersen11
, Unite Here Local 11 co-president
#BoycottLA
#BoycottLAHotels
Thousands of Local 11 members voted last week to strike if needed to win what we deserve—including the ability to live near where we work.
We've been priced out of housing in the cities where we welcome people. We're determined to do what it takes to come back
#1u
#strike
NEW: 15,000 hotel workers in LA are gearing up for the largest hotel strike in modern US history.
LA’s hotel industry is raking in more profits than before the pandemic but refuses to offer workers even a penny more, and many can't pay rent.
Workers are ready to shut LA down.
“She
@taylorswift13
has taken on corporate greed to make sure artists get fairly compensate & that those workers behind the scenes in her own music get the treatment they deserve,” Ada Briceño, co-president of UNITE HERE Local 11, said on Thursday.
WATCH PART 1: Never-before-seen footage of the JW Marriott’s use of LAPD to break up our peaceful picket line and detain workers and organizers. Tomorrow, hearings are scheduled for the individuals cited by LAPD.
Entertainment and tourism are two of the largest industries in SoCal. Our members are proud to stand side by side with courageous
@WGAWest
writers on strike.
#WGAstrike
#Solidarity
#1u
“While protective and proud of the excellent medical benefits we have won in our contracts, we strongly believe Medicare for All is a promising proposal that should be pursued for our members, and for our country.”