This Is The Largest Hotel Strike In Modern American History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- 15,000 hotel workers in LA are just walked out in the largest hotel strike in modern US history.
LA’s hotel industry is raking in more profits than before the pandemic but refuses to offer workers even a penny more, and many can't pay rent.
Workers are ready to shut LA down.
#losangeles #strike #hotel
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No worker should be traveling more than 4hrs a day for work. Either you're paid for your travel time or you make enough to live close to your job.
Modern day wage slavery! I stand with the hotel workers. The wages are awful!
The corpo I work for has us working 45 minutes to a whole hour and half away from home without compensation. My co workers just accept it. Massachusetts is a screwed up state
A four hour commute could mean 120-150 miles of driving a day. It’s ridiculous that the worker would be on the hook for that.
Right,stand with them too,2hrs trip to work is a lot of energy to burn let alone 4hrs@nwatson2773
Literally every worker is in this exact position. Class solidarity.
If you sell your body and time for a wage you are a member of the working class, it doesn't matter if you earn 15k or 100k per year, you are the working class. The ruling class is the 1% billionaires, thieves who make money off our backs.
It makes me cry, but atleast I know I'm not alone. I make $3,500 a month as an IDEXX Specimen Courier, meaning, if you've ever taken your pet to the vet clinic, and they got bloodwork done, I'm the person to picks it up, and drops it off at the lab. My income is tax-free which I am grateful for, but that is because my mileage cancels out my income. I don't have a car payment, but I spend around $1000 a month for Gasoline, Maintenance, and Insurance. $1,800 goes housing & utilities, $350 for food, $150 for phone, $75 for credit cards, and the remaining $125 is usually used for emergencies or for essential items that i had money dedicated for, but had dried up the funds for that category. Each month I am adding $250-350 to my credit card in debt, barely making the minimum payment, and the other day, i even saw that more than half of americans are having to put their bills on credit, because they simply can't afford to live. It's outrageous, and it almost makes me su!cidal. But, strength in numbers, we can fix this cost-of-living issue.
solidarity? nah. the working class is programmed constantly by mass media to clash internally over drag queens, guns, antifa and whatever else the 1% wants them to bang a drum on. until the US has its Bastille Day, nothing changes.
These greedy corporations would absolutely come to a screeching halt if the workers and consumers all came together and stood their ground. I stand by the motel workers of this country and vow not to stay in any Marriot hotel or any other for that matter until they can come correct and do the right thing by their employees.✊🏼🙏🏻
@@cowmath77
Its a private housing mkt
Blackrock and other huge corporations are buying up swaths of land and houses … and paying ridiculous prices for them.
We need to make them all learn the hard way.
As a small business owner, *I* *LOVE* *UNIONS!*
I Love Unions because I need what EVERY small business owner needs... I need Customers; aka Consumers with Money. Union Workers organize and demand proper wages = Money. Union Workers have Money and therefore, can become my valuable Customers.
Non-union Workers are too timid and/or ignorant to organize and are therefore, weaker and poorer. They choose to be poor slave and they are NOT going to become My (or Your) customers, they are a drag upon our entire economy.
I LOVE UNIONS BECAUSE UNIONS CREATE MIDDLE CLASS! ... and because I want Our country to have a Big and Strong Middle Class, thanks to Unions.
UNIONS ARE GOOD FOR A STRONG AMERICA!
Why does your desire to make more Trump a business owners want to make more?? Business owners put up all the risk. Work for free for the first 3-5 years. 20% fail the first year, almost half by year 5 and 65% by year 10. Shouldn’t there be some kind of “fair” compensation for all the risk and free work? No employees risked their money or worked for free??
Why is those with the least amount of business and economic knowledge have the most to say on the topic? Isn’t anyone interested in educating themselves so they can have a better argument. Or at least counter points?
Come on kids. Don’t be followers, be leaders.
@@FatherLarper-rz9kw what an absolute load of bullshit.
Business owners put up some $ and borrow the rest for supplies, location if needed, lisences, labor, etc. covers your expenses including your pay.
Anyone with confidence and knowledge of their trade can be a success if they know what they’re doing.
You may break even for a few yrs but breaking even means you’ve been paid… making a profit is above and beyond that.
That every biz owner works for free for the first 5 yrs is a line regurgitated in hopes of stifling competition..OR you dont know what you’re doing and need some schooling.
Employees have worked and dont get paid … it’s literally in the billions, and from companies like Walmart.
THAT is working for free. Plus employees are the first cut because biz owners absolutely refuse to take a cut themselves thus more work is piled on those who remain.
Employers will continue to call and flatter the last naive workers and use them with the intention of not paying. Then employees are typically fired for dumb reasons so the employer doesn’t have to dole out bucks for unemployment.
Employees take all the risk.
Employer files BK for the company, avoiding losing any money to creditors they owe.
They then sell the assets for more money.
Lg & med size corporation leaders protected even further with golden parachutes while investors (bond holders then Class A Premium shares on down common shares avg Joes buy in the mkt) get any actual dollars and employees are treated as human capital.
Employees lose all profit sharing, all stock options are worthless, pensions depleted.
Now the former employees must take their former employer to court IF they can afgord it and are to likely lose because their former boss’ defense team keeps getting continuances for various reasons.
But IF they show, the employees maybe are awarded back pay owed.. now how do you get them to actuall pay? Garnish? From where?
And yes…
I am an economist and a retired business owner.
This needed to be done for decades. Glad to see industry by industry that it’s happening. Corporations need to stop treating people like near slaves with how little they compensate
She sleeps 3 hours a night, but people want us all to believe that CEOs work hundreds if not thousands of times harder.
They work 36hrs a day 9 days a week
CEO die from stress. Stress does not stop at 5;00. CEO live with constant stress.😂
nuance: everyone’s suffering;
but shouldn’t we strive for a better world? no matter if CEO or worker? we got rid of imperialism and slavery, so it’s possible
CEOs work from home while on vacation most of the time. They basically work 3 days a month or so and get full nights of sleep every day. If they had to do real work, they'd quit even though they get paid millions for little work.
@@moondancecoffee 9hrs every night with extra oxygen from the walls lol
Some people work to live. (Living)
Most people live just to make ends meet. (Surviving)
Living is a human right. And our right to live has been violated.
Even in the white collar professional industries this shit is happening. STEM grads can't even afford studios in major cities anymore. We have to shut this shit down.
This is cruel and typical of corporate greed people should not have to work under inhumane conditions.
Solidarity to all 15,000 hotel workers! Strike until victory, we're all with you no matter what!
Maybe they shouldn’t be bragging about how many millions in profits they’ve made when they can’t help employees pay for rent or support the local economy. 👀 what a bunch of corporate clownery. Strike at any possible company who thinks they are above their employees.
Well they’re busy creating inflation to pin on Biden and Dems. Record profits don’t point to the need to raise prices to make up for cost increases.
Also..
The selling of our largest refineries, in Port Arthur Texas in 2017 to the Saudis who are cutting production, increasing gas prices.
Good for them! It's long since time that workers stood up and got their due!
Those people at the top of the pyramid would have NOTHING without them.
Exactly
Workers I am with you
😊
WORKERS! YOU HAVE BEEN MISTREATED FAR TOO LONG! STAND UP TOGETHER AND FIGHT CAPITALIST TYRANNY! TOGETHER WE CAN WIN!
Workers are too busy with antiracism, feminism, veganism and LGBTQIA+ activism to care about a worker's revolution.
@@MK_ULTRA420 they just need organized. Everybody essentially wants the same thing: to be free from capitalist imperialism.
@@kippgoeden lol cope
Our labor is our most powerful weapon. When capitalists won’t pay us livable wages, we must withhold that labor. Solidarity with the hotel workers!
I love seeing people take the power back. They don't have a business without the workers.
The systematic nature of the way this has been happening is frightening. The death of democracy, the rapid takeover of all of the government by corporations and the indoctrination of this indentured servitude into the working/labor class, while the wealthy can never have enough. When is enough, enough? Like with all encounters with narcissim, asking why will never get the problem solved. Unfortunately, that means something a lot more than strikes and protests will be required to get through this, in my opinion.
There is never enough for the narcissists running corp America.
They want badly to automate everything thru AI and hope us “useless eaters” die.
These workers are going to need food and money for utilities etc or the hotels will just wait it out while they try to hire other ppl.
Profits will be delayed not denied.
All power to the people 👊 Workers make the world run and they deserve to live in it with dignity.
I worked for Marriott for 5 years, and they don't care about the employees just the bottom line.
As a fellow hotel worker (front desk, not housekeeping but still) I stand with them.
Time for workers to get some of that huge profit!
The bosses need the workers, the workers don't need the bosses. Solidarity forever
Systematic destruction of the working class...by design
Corporate greed has become untenable! They are treating the workers as if they don't deserve anything and do nothing to earn their wages!
The problem is the Stock Market. There must ALWAYS be MORE profits or something bad happens.
@@hegyak Unlimited growth is unsustainable! Only a fool believes it can happen forever! This is what will create the Umbrella Corporation from the Resident Evil game and bring it to life!
@@hegyak the stock mkt is a mafia controlled casino.
@@mind_of_a_darkhorse The Umbrella Corportation does exist and they do make weapons. The have the same logo too. I would post the link to their site but I can't. .
@@zurizoraya8672 The point I was trying to make is that a corporation that makes everything we use is extremely dangerous and eventually the growth would stop or extremely slow down to a point where the only influx of gain would be from increasing prices and adding on more fees. Combine that with the fact they don't want to pay the workers and we will all end up as their slaves. There will be only two classes the Rich and the slave!
Let's go, fight back against corporate greed.
I stand with these workers. Where can we donate to help?
I worked there until COVID. The wage gap between employees and management is criminal.
And that gap, not just in the LA hotel industry, but in a lot of sectors is getting progressively worse - which on the plus side, means the pushback in many cases is getting stronger. I hope this strike achieves a lessening of that gap, personally - and my fullest solidarity to your former colleagues!
@@dukeofrodtown1705hotel workers are paid poorly all over the country !
@@nwatson2773 I believe it's the same situation in Canada, sadly. Solidarity to them all, and every other worker being devalued for the sake of the few's profits!
Thank you for the positive framing. We can chip away at progress, it's marginal but change does happen. Stories like these aren't made for us to despair but to feel fortunate and help advocate for those who need it. Let's push forward ✊️
The Hotels don't pay their workers enough. AND let's think about the other side of the equation for a minute. The reason housing is so expensive near Downtown LA is because of the housing shortage. And the reason there is a housing shortage is due to Exclusionary Zoning which is a classist/racist US invention that bans low-cost housing nearly everywhere.
We can't give a pass to the abysmal land-use that created the housing shortage. We need to talk about that too.
You also have to consider the many empty apartments and homes that are empty solely to drive up "scarcity."
@@themadman5615 The vacancy rate in Los Angeles is very low. When vacancy rates are less than 5%, rents typically go up, and when vacancy rates are more than 5%, rents typically go down. So it's no wonder why rents in LA have been going up when the vacancy rate was 2-3%.
@@mariusfacktor3597 I wouldn't know the specifics if LA, though I have looked into the rates for Oklahoma and New York. And as far as I can find, the official vacancy rates, as stated on open listings not proper empty apartments and homes, the vacancy rate is moderately low, around 5-15% depending on the state and county. But in actuality, much like the "unemployed" metric of the US, when you actually take into consideration available homes that simply aren't listed, the rates skyrocket. At minimum there is an average of one to two apartments or homes that go completely empty despite being fully habitable per about ten listed homes. The only reason this is done is to drive up scarcity, which of course incentivizes rising rent prices. All capitalism is now is artificial scarcity and a gross misuse of resources.
@@themadman5615 You're being totally genuine and I can see how you'd think that, but I happen to know that the data doesn't back that up. Give me a chance to explain.
The Vacancy Rate is a misunderstood metric. It contains every type of residential unit that is not being lived in. It includes units under serious renovation, student housing in the summer, vacation homes, units owned by an elderly person now in a nursing home, and of course, units for sale or for rent. So if a unit is being held off market to increase scarcity, it IS included in the Vacancy Rate. That's why the data doesn't back that up. If 10% of homes were being held off market, the Vacancy Rate would be 10%+, but it's way less than that.
You're absolutely right that housing prices are the result of supply & demand. The reality is that there isn't enough supply due to exclusionary policies that were put in place to appease the already wealthy homeowners.
We are w you, workers of the world! Solidarity, prayers, blessings, unity! Poor People’s Campaign💛
How awful. America is awful. When are we going to change things? We can't keep living like this.
Good. Unions are important
Solidarity forever!!!! ✊
Solidarity👍
Working in hotel doing my managers paperwork for the resume skills, I saw what our little hotel made, and the wages of all the employees... After adding it all up I got to a question from corporate in the form "If worker wages exceed 5% OF THE PROFIT, who are you going to fire?" Working in a hotel is not "boss makes a dollar, I make a dime" any more, you get a nickel that you have to share with all your coworkers.
Hotels should be turned into co-ops and or turned into permanent housing for poor and abused people who need it.
And malls
@@bevhills4877 Malls should be turned into affordable housing. Some already are.
@@SerCommander "You say we should improve society and yet you participate in that same society. Curious."
1:34 This is a strong example of how car-dependent infrastructure keeps us all poorer!
It amazes me how greedy companies are
Solidarity with LA hospitality workers ✊️✊️✊️
I stay in hotels 6 days a month. I don’t want to sleep in dirty sheets! Come on pay these people what they need!!! Mormons or Paris Hilton.
I can't believe what hospitality workers put up with. Strike!
It's incredibly disgusting how hugely profitable companies don't pay living wages.
They easily can but choose to pay top executives outrageous compensation packages while they starve the workers that do the work!
More power to them, solidarity from the UK to the hardworking hotel workers.
I'm a LA resident (Long Beach), what ya'll need us to do?
what orange duster said. Have solidarity with your fellow workers, and at the very least, no hotels until the strike is over.
Providing food and monetary support is also helpful to strikers. They need to pay their bills and put food on the table while they are striking.
No one should have to work crazy hours just to support their family enough to keep them off the streets. Our system is completely broken for working people. This is modern day slavery. Enough is enough. Take the power back and fight.
Solidarity for the hotel worker’s
YES!!!!! We need this in Colorado also! My partner has worked for Marriott for years and it is only getting worse. He doesn’t even get a break anymore which is literally illegal. His work environment has been declining rapidly since he went back after being laid off in 2020. We absolutely stand in solidarity!!! How so we get this in Colorado?!
Although I ultimately support them, I feel this might be somewhat misdirected. This is mostly caused by the housing crisis which is worsened by zoning laws and parking minimums. That's partly why everyone in every industry is experiencing the same problems. Demanding higher pay is only a short term solution.
They need to be protesting the city to get rid of parking minimums and build strictly affordable housing/mixed use development (and put a restrictions on who can purchase the buildings like Canada did).
no link to a strike fund?
Solidarity ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
thanks for covering!
Hotels are so very overpriced,greed .
Wow I worked in a hotel when I was in my teens. It's true the wages aren't commensurate with the profit these large hotels make.
I would be surprised if the government doesn't make some legislation forcing everyone to continue working until a quiet period when no tourists would notice.
Right, like they did the railroad workers before the big train crash in Ohio. . Civil unrest is coming to a head in waves. The working class against the rich and bourgeoisie.
Mass resignation.
I stand with the hospitality works! Unite Here is a national union for workers in hospitality. I think the Entire Unite Here Union should strike natín wide!
“I ain’t going back to Barstow”
-Roman Pierce
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Worked hard for it or not, everyone deserves a baseline wage that will allow them more than just to survive. Not to mention the right to affordable housing within a reasonable distance to your workplace (30 min drive or 45 minute bike ride MAX)
Those angry folks don't need a pay raise UNTIL they get RENT CONTROL!!! No point in getting 10% raise when scum-lords raise rent 40%.
@Susan Petty that is a good point. As much as some people hate to hear it, no society can function well by being purely laissez faire capitalist.
45 min is max 1-way commute. Anything else, demand more money / strike.
Bruh I genuinely feel for these people. I had many instances where I slept 3-4 hrs before pulling a 12 hrs all nighter. It's not fun at all. These people are essential workers, they are the ones holding the city together, the economy. Big CEOs do jackshit. Giving these people what they deserve, like increased wages in these tough times is the least they can do. They got several pipelines of cash flow and can always recoup it thrice the amount. But they won't and this is how a huge gap is created between the rich, poor and non existent middle class. This is how people become homeless, drug addicts and resort to crime to just get by. It's all a chain reaction
I will never cross any picket line and I'm happy that American workers are finally waking up. I'm just sorry it has taken so long.
Its more than just the wages. Its quality of life and safety. Maybe even some recognition.
Any hotel that claims to value their employees at this point is lying. Corporations value profit for their shareholders, CEOs, and governing board.
Good luck finding scabs to break the strike, and management, have fun doing real work on your salaries.
I stand with my union sisters and brothers.
Solidarity with the hotel workers. The way the hotel management is operating is inhumane and despicable.
Contract work is just another way of not providing full time jobs with benefits. I hope you get a better deal.
Stay strong 💪💜
Really sad that they claim to not have the money like always
The suits will have nothing to show for themselves without workers actually cleaning, cooking, serving, washing, folding, delivering, carrying..... DOING EVERYTHING that generates their profits!
And they think they can just ignore workers and keep counting their stacks?
I hope they do strike, and truly hurt these a**holes!
Yes!
Solidarity
Workers unit!
Thanks🏢
I stand with the hotel workers. I support the unionization of all workers.
Good grief. This is obscene.
Cities are to blame here as well, rather than building a blend of affordable living options and high value options, they are instead granting developers the ability to continuously build town homes and condos that cost a half million to full million to buy. Meaning that it drives up prices locally and forces people out cause they can't afford the price inflation that comes with it, it needs to be checked before it gets out of control honestly.
Can we all collectively buy shares of these companies and then force them to actually pay people a living wage? Is there any way that can be done to beat them at their own game?
The run-of-the-mill private citizen as a shareholder usually doesn't get much of a say in corporate policy. You get to fill out an occasional survey to vote for the board of directors and the people in charge, and maybe they also have specific issues for you to vote on, but that's about it. Most of what is in that survey is Greek to the average shareholder, and very often, it goes straight to the circular file because the shareholder doesn't care. That survey is only read by an automated machine, and you don't really have a chance to give much feedback of substance so that you can compel the people in charge to take action.
If an individual was able to buy a controlling volume of shares, then they would take this individual seriously, if this individual approached their corporate office, and asked to speak to the board of directors. But a collective group of shareholders, all each only owning a drop-in-the-bucket of the company, probably not.
We stand with you LA! You are LA STRONG!
We’re working on a Minimum Wage Campaign. $25/hr by 2028 and we’re taking this to a regional level along the entire Front Range of CO.
Fight the fight! Don’t stop fighting! We must unite!
Its not worth it in the long run. I use to be a housekeeper in a major hotel, i lasted 3 years , until I got a new better paying job in my area of expertise.
I was so glad. I worked 6 days /included working Saturday and Sunday, and 1 day off , worked to death minimum appreciation and pay. Forget it if I asked for a day off- it was like I committed a crime and I was a worker that was on time, always at work unless , extremely sick and when I was extremely sick with a fever of 101 , they had a hard attack , i told them I just can’t work I went as long as I could. I stand with you’s as a previous housekeeper.
Everywhere this happening eith much more frequency
Workers are like fingers of hands. You have the power. Stick together, Forge alliances and bring down these greedy corporations.
"like the fingers of hands...stick together" 😂
@@Zyo117 thanks 👍
Yes, Class Solidarity.
I stand behind these workers! The JW Marriott is an expensive hotel as are the rest! I stand behind all the workers in FL too! It’s time for the rich yt man to pay up for taking advantage of the Black and brown communities!! Stick it to them and make them pay!! ✊🏽
#SolidarityWithAllWorkers
This is awful. Thank you for bringing to everyone’s attention. Hope the hotel workers get what they deserve
I stand by you!
VOTE TRUMP 2024// UNION HERO
How sad for these workers..
Wish there was a link to donate to striking workers
Hotel workers need to put their foot down
Travel time that is not compensated is unpaid labor.
Just reinforces my dislike of LA.
So sick of seeing people exploited.
I wish them all the best with this strike. I hope it hurts the hotel owners enough to damage their reputations permanently and get workers the living wages they deserve.
Don't be a scab; stay out of LA while they strike.
God this is great. More strikes!
Until your demands are met hotel workers, remain on strike😊. Mangement can do your job.. They can hire someone for less than you are getting paid. The hotels must meet your demands.🎉
Maybe it will not be given, only taken, because the rich have a thirst that needs more of the other guys share. Labor is the problem and deserve nothing as the enemy is what is the new catchy trend.
It would seem that affordable housing is just as big of an issue as the low wages.
Never cross a picket line. Easy for me to say since I’m not going to LA but I wouldn’t if I were.
Where can people donate to help?
why not ask how much the union is taking from these employees in dues?
I miss the days when owners operated their businesses. The investor class ought to get in there and operate the hotels they own. Then they can really think about what those wages pay for.
When business as usual is no longer an option.
When acceptable norms are no longer acceptable.
The same comfortably complacent & complicit Trump "Resisters" will cry when watching "The Help" on premium cable; but don't give a damn about real human beings suffering today.
No war but class war
Where is America going when it comes to the workforce?😮
Post the wages they are unsatisfied of. Post a breakdown of their expenses. I'm with you on this, but without the numbers, it's all meaningless.