Workers at the Hampton Inn Santa Monica, Courtyard Santa Monica, Viceroy Santa Monica, Le Méridien Delfina and the Four Points LAX became the latest hotels to sign the historic accord agreeing to the life-changing wages, benefits and other historic protections.
In the past week, the Proper Santa Monica, Hotel Maya in Long Beach, Hyatt Place Pasadena, Proper Downtown Los Angeles, Westdrift Manhattan Beach, Hotel June West LA and Alsace Hotel also signed.
Patricia Ibañez, a Unite Here Local 11 leader and housekeeper at Le Méridien Delfina in Santa Monica of 17 years said, “I am so proud of my coworkers for sticking together through this fight. It took grit, blood, sweat and tears, but we did it. I am excited to go back to my job after being suspended. The immense support I received from my coworkers and other community members inspired me to never give up. This is going to change my life.”
The five new agreements come on the heels of seven others reached earlier this week, for a total of 46 settled contracts.
The new contract has the largest economic increases of any industry-wide contract in the last 30 years. With a $5 an hour raise in the first year; workers will have $10,400 more to pay for rent, to feed their families
There will be 40 to 50% wage increases for non tipped workers over the 4.5 year term of the agreement and most room attendants will earn $35 an hour by July 1, 2027 with guaranteed pre-pandemic staffing levels and mandatory daily room cleaning.
It will be one of the highest paid pension plans for service workers in nation with 50 pages of improvements, including Juneteenth as a paid holiday, unprecedented language for the fair treatment of workers impacted by the criminal justice system and protections of immigrant rights.
The contract will expire January 15, 2028, just before the world turns its attention on Los Angeles for the XXXIV Olympiad. More than 10,000 workers at 52 hotels have struck 170 times so far in the largest strike in the history of the nation’s hospitality industry.
The membership has resolved to continue striking and boycotting until all hotels, including the Hotel Figueroa, all of the boycotted Aimbridge properties like the Doubletree Downtown Los Angeles that have not yet signed, and the LA Grand, the site of the city-operated Inside Safe Program.
Submitted by Maria Hernandez, Unite Here Local 11