HotelWorkers.org.uk

2012 Central London Hotel Workers Branch Meetings

VENUE....
Unite House, 128 Theobalds Road, HOLBORN, London WC!X 8TN.

TIME....
17.00 to 18.30

DATES...
Monday....9th January
Monday....6th February
Monday....5th March
Monday....2nd April
Monday....14th May
Monday....11th June
Monday....2nd July

Union members can bring non-union hotel workers as their guests.
OR
London Hotel Workers can come along and join on the spot.

Room attendants, waiters, porters and kitchen staff will, on the eve of the countdown (Tuesday, 26th July) to one year until the London Olympics, protest against the treatment of the hospitality sector of its workforce.

When: 6pm, Tuesday, 26th July 2011

Where: Olympic Clock, Trafalgar Square

• Unite the Union says: "this shameful position is damaging to London’s Olympic reputation and its standing in the world." 
• Unite regional officer, Dave Turnbull says "the failure of major hotels in London to genuinely embrace the concept of a Living Wage for their staff tarnishes London’s reputation as the Olympic city and leaves workers feeling like second class citizens in a world class destination.”
• Unite Hotel Workers branch says  "our members want a London Living Wage and refuse to accept that they should get the London Poverty Wage that so many hotels pay to their workers."
  

40 London Hotel Workers,West London Citizens and international Trade Union representatives picketed the Mayfair Holiday Inn in support of the campaign for the London Living Wage(LLW) to be paid in hotels in London.

The first reaction was about use of the Olympic Logo. Also a protest about our demand that ALL OLYMPIC WORKERS should get the LLW.

Images of the picket will be on this site in a few days.

Union members will be at the AGM of IHG this Friday to support the "Fair Pensions" organisation's demands that the company should pay the Living Wage.

London, 24th May, 2011. At a demonstration outside the Mayfair Holiday Inn Unite the Union hotel workers, supported by West London Citizens community members and International Union of Food Worker  delegates asked two questions.

First, Why have Sebastian Coe and the Olympics movement not honoured the agreement  signed that "all providers of services to the 2012 Olympics should pay the London Living Wage" .

London's Evening Standard today reported allegations made by Amia Ismail, 57, who is suing Radisson Edwardian Hotels for unfair dismissal.

Amia was moved from his job as a restaurant manager and replaced by "an attractive 28 year old" because, he says, the manager "wanted a new and younger image". Amia claims that he was then told to move to the Mayfair Hotel where he should "find fault with older staff and pressure them to leave". Mayfair manager Charles Oak is alleged to have then said the ideal employee was "young, blonde, sexy and with short skirts".

I accompanied an LHMU hotel organiser to a hotel where the union is close to securing a recognition agreement. I sat in the staff canteen and was able to talk to many of the workers and learn of their experiences. I spoke with housekeepers, porters, receptionists and food and beverage workers. This hotel used to be a Ritz Carlton 10 years ago and i was able to learn of the differences between then and now as it's owned by an international chain. Without exception each worker said that not only were the employment conditions worse but so was the service provided to guests.

Last night I went to a very special cafe in Bandung. The café is called BJ’s but it is better known to its patrons as the ”Solidarity Café” and the story behind it should be an inspiration to us all.