Workers at dozens of the city’s top hotels — including the Palmer House and Sheraton Grand Chicago — voted on Wednesday to authorize a strike later this month as they fight for a new collective bargaining agreement. The employees will hit the picket lines if a new deal is not struck by Aug. 31, after Unite Here Local 1 members voted “overwhelmingly” — more than 90 percent — in favor of a potential strike, a union source said late Wednesday.
Thirty-one hotels, most of them downtown, would be affected by the work stoppage. The exact number of hotel employees potentially involved in a strike was unclear, though one source put it in the thousands.
In the late 90s, when I worked in Pittsburgh I stayed at the Hilton on Point Park (now a damned Wyndham). It was a wonderful hotel, with one of the best Executive Lounges in the country. One day I need to store a bag, I was shocked to find out that you had tip the bellman $5. I spoke to management, in my naivete, I thought tips were voluntary. Nope it was in the union contract. I spoke to the bellman, he told me he earned 115K a year, and this was in 1996. Ever since then I have tried… Read more »
Ed S
7 years ago
Interesting how this coincides with the cancelling of the 2400 airbnb hosts ability to offer rooms to let
nixit
7 years ago
“including the Palmer House and Sheraton Grand Chicago” Hmmm…The Sun Times forgot to mention the Hyatt Regency Chicago…and the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place…and the Park Hyatt. Why would a union-owned paper forget hotels owned by one of the wealthiest families in America???
In the late 90s, when I worked in Pittsburgh I stayed at the Hilton on Point Park (now a damned Wyndham). It was a wonderful hotel, with one of the best Executive Lounges in the country. One day I need to store a bag, I was shocked to find out that you had tip the bellman $5. I spoke to management, in my naivete, I thought tips were voluntary. Nope it was in the union contract. I spoke to the bellman, he told me he earned 115K a year, and this was in 1996. Ever since then I have tried… Read more »
Interesting how this coincides with the cancelling of the 2400 airbnb hosts ability to offer rooms to let
“including the Palmer House and Sheraton Grand Chicago” Hmmm…The Sun Times forgot to mention the Hyatt Regency Chicago…and the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place…and the Park Hyatt. Why would a union-owned paper forget hotels owned by one of the wealthiest families in America???