{"id":392306,"date":"2019-01-10T09:59:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T08:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/marriott-workers-celebrate-victory-on-the-picket-line\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T09:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T08:59:36","slug":"marriott-workers-celebrate-victory-on-the-picket-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/marriott-workers-celebrate-victory-on-the-picket-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott Workers Celebrate Victory on the Picket Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For 61 days members of UNITE HERE Local 2<\/a><\/span> struck at seven Marriott hotels in San Francisco during a national campaign targeting the world\u2019s largest hotel corporation. The San Francisco union was the last to settle and go back to work.<\/p>\n

Room cleaners won a $1.75 per hour raise retroactive to last August, and significant raises in the next three years, while fully employer-paid health care is guaranteed for the life of the contract. Housekeepers won workload reductions. The new contract<\/a><\/span> strengthens workers\u2019 rights around the introduction of technology in the workplace, the \u201cGreen Choice\u201d program<\/a><\/span>, sexual harassment of room cleaners by guests, employee safety, and immigration. The strike stopped Marriott from contracting out room service and food service in a number of hotels. In San Francisco, workers won unprecedented job protections \u2014 if they\u2019re laid off their names go into a pool where they\u2019ll receive preference for rehiring at other hotels.<\/p>\n

The agreement was the result of the strike\u2019s meticulous planning and the participation of workers in the seven hotels. In four hotels, not one Local 2 member crossed the picket line. Only a few did in the other three hostelries at which workers were on strike.<\/p>\n

The images in this photo essay were taken on the last day of the strike. In the photographs, the workers react on the picket lines to the end of the strike, weigh the proposed agreement, vote on it and then celebrate it.<\/p>\n

To hear the workers\u2019 own accounts of the strike and why the union won, read Truthout\u2019s exclusive interview<\/a> with UNITE HERE Local 2 President Anand Singh and UNITE HERE Local 2 organizer and Marriott campaign coordinator Kevin O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n

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