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Boston hotel workers authorize strike after their contracts expire at the end of the month

Some 4,500 workers at 35 Boston hotels voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, according to their union, Unite Here Local 26.

With the votes now secured, hotel strikes Citywide could commence in a matter of weeks: at any property, at any time, after contracts expire on August 31st.

Thousands of hotel workers collectively decided that a strike authorization vote was necessary after what they described as unproductive and even insulting contract bargaining sessions that began in April. Across job classifications, seniority levels, and types of properties, the workers overwhelmingly agreed they were struggling to make ends meet while hotel owners prospered. Since 2020, the value of total compensation for 15 named Executive Officers across three companies is a staggering $1.7 billion - enough money to pay every union hotel worker in Boston and Cambridge $40 an hour for four years.

The union says it is also fighting o restore staffing and service cuts that remain from the initial days of the pandemic.

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What are the 3 companies? If they are multinationals, then why would executive compensation be used to pay workers in Boston and Cambridge specifically as opposed to Mexico City or Dublin?

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I got this list from the union website - basically all of them!

Aloft Boston Seaport

Aloft Providence Downtown

Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino Resort

Battery Wharf Hotel

Boston Park Plaza

Colonnade

Copley Square Hotel

Courtyard by Marriott Cambridge

Courtyard by Marriott Downtown/North Station

Courtyard by Marriott East Boston

Courtyard by Marriott South Boston

Dagny Boston

DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Boston-Cambridge

Element Seaport Boston

Encore Boston Harbor

Fairmont Copley Plaza

Graduate Providence

Hampton Inn Crosstown

Hampton Inn & Homewood Suites, Hilton Seaport

Hilton Boston Back Bay

Hilton Boston Logan Airport

Hilton Garden Inn Boston Logan Airport

Hotel AKA Back Bay

Hotel AKA Boston Common

Hotel Commonwealth

Hyatt Centric Faneuil Hall Boston

Hyatt Place Boston Seaport District

Intercontinental

Le Meridien Cambridge

Lenox

Moxy Boston Downtown

Newbury Boston

Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport

Omni Parker House

Omni Providence

Renaissance Boston

Renaissance Providence

The Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common

Sheraton Boston

Sheraton Commander

W Boston

Westin Boston Waterfront

Westin Copley Place

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Based on those numbers, sounds like the CEO-worker pay ratio is over 1000x.

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Come Sept. hotel rooms are full in Boston thru leaf peeping season, Homecomings, and Parent's Weekends at local uni and colleges and don't start to slow down til about beginning of Nov. This would force the owners hands if they wanted to continue to make bank thru one of their busiest seasons.

Good strategizing by the union. Hope they get what they are demanding.

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Right on!

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