Thousands of Southern California hotel workers remained on strike Monday, forming picket lines at many of the businesses in an effort to secure higher pay and improvements in health care and retirement benefits.
The contract between the hotels and Unite Here Local 11, which represents up to 15,000 workers employed at major hotels, expired at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. WorkersThe hotels that are impacted by the strike include the Intercontinental, Millennium Biltmore, The Ritz Carlton, all located in downtown Los Angeles, as well as the The Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica.A group of striking workers gathered outside the L.A. Grand Hotel Monday morning with picketing signs.
"To the guests, we are asking to just support us, please," said hotel worker Mercedes Florence. "Don't stay in union hotels. Do not - because all they're going to do is offer you so many things without even thinking... that the room attendants are outside fighting for a better future."Negotiators are asking for an immediate $5 an hour raise and an additional $3 an hour in subsequent years of the contract along with improvements in health care and retirement benefits.
In a statement, the hotel bargaining group released a statement that says they've offered an increase of $2.50 an hour in the first 12 months, and a $6.25 increase over four years.
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