Hotel Workers Rising
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Hotel Workers Rising is a campaign of UNITE HERE, formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) and the union of Hotel, Entertainment and Restaurant Employees (HERE).
The Hotel Workers Rising campaign is aimed at organizing and mobilizing UNITE HERE members in the hotel industry to win improvements in the workplace, including: higher wages, better benefits and safer workloads.
UNITE HERE represents 90,000 of the 1.3 million hotel workers in the U.S.
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[edit] Injury Rates in Hotels
The workers in the hotel industry, largely women of color and immigrant women, are “more than 48% more likely to be injured on the job than the typical service worker” and more than 51% more likely to experience disabling injuries, according to Creating Luxury, Enduring Pain: How Hotel Work is Hurting Workers.
Within the industry, hotel housekeepers experience an injury rate 86% higher than non-housekeepers, according to the same study.
[edit] Wages
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average hourly wage for Housekeepers in the U.S. is $8.67. In New York and San Francisco, where union density in this sector is 85%, the average hourly wage is $20 and $15.09, respectively.
In Phoenix, where UNITE HERE’s density is 5%, the average hourly wage is $7.60.
[edit] Allies
The Hotel Workers Rising campaign has garnered the support of individuals and community organizations outside of the Labor Movement. Most notably, John Edwards and Danny Glover have both appeared at various events endorsing the goals of the campaign.
