In solidarity with our colleagues in USA
On Wednesday 9th May, London Hotel Workers Hotel Workers gathered in front of the Hyatt Andaz at Liverpool
Street to support the actions of our brothers and sisters in the USA
who have been fighting for greater working conditions for years in
many Hyatt hotels across the country.
Union Recognition in Hotels
Submitted by hotel_workers_united on Tue, 01/05/2012 - 23:32Recognition: the only sure way to get full benefit of union membership!
Many hotel workers join the union because they want some personal insurance and back up if they run into problems at work. But there are limitations to what the union can do and when it is not officially recognised by their employer.
UK Workers lack basic skills?
Submitted by hotel_workers_united on Wed, 07/03/2012 - 16:22Our Branch Secretary Hugh O' Shea was recently interviewed by Katy Holland from AOL Travel in response to a claim made by the director of Malmaison and Hotel du vin,Mr Williams, that UK workers are not interested in working in hotels and lack basic skills.
Having worked in hotel and restaurants in London for longer than ten years I agree partly to Mr Williams' statement. He may be right to say that British people are not interested in working in hotels despite the high unemployment rate, but as Hugh pointed out, this is not because British workers lack skills.
2012 Hotel Workers Branch Meetings
Submitted by hugh on Tue, 24/01/2012 - 22:202012 Central London Hotel Workers Branch Meetings
Hotel workers mark the 'one year countdown' to London 2012
Submitted by admin on Tue, 26/07/2011 - 12:39
When: 6pm, Tuesday, 26th July 2011Where: 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."
Union receives complaint about the use of Olympics logo....2012 organisers say "only direct employees promised London Living Wage".....but NO COMMENT on Unite demands for Olympic workers to get paid the London Living Wage.
Submitted by hugh on Tue, 24/05/2011 - 21:3040 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.
