| Website | www.hotelworkersrising.org |
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Hotel Workers Rising is a campaign of UNITE HERE 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.
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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 percent 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 percent higher than non-housekeepers, according to the same study.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average hourly wage for housekeepers in the U.S. is $8.67. In New York city and San Francisco, California, where union density in this sector is 85 percent, the average hourly wage is $20.00 and $15.09, respectively.
In Phoenix, Arizona, where UNITE HERE's density is 5 percent, the average hourly wage is $7.60.
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.