Why Marriott Workers Are Striking

(CityLab) – By Sarah Holder. To check into the Marriott-owned W Hotel in San Francisco, guests were ducking behind a picket line of angry workers. “No contract, no peace!” the striking hotel employees chanted. Down the block, at the Marriott Marquis, there was another circle of picketers. Big bold font on their signs read: “One job should be enough.”

Lee Cataluna: What it’s like when 1 job isn’t enough

(Honolulu Star-Advertiser) – By Lee Cataluna. Striking hotel workers have brought to light a powerful challenge to Hawaii: the idea that one job should be enough in a place where many people work second jobs and have done so for decades, often to get ahead financially or to do something they love.

Union lodges more unfair-labor charges against Kyo-ya hotels

(Honolulu Star-Advertiser) – By Allison Schaefers. Unite Here Local 5, the union representing 2,700 striking hotel workers on Oahu and Maui, accused Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts on Thursday of more unfair labor practices at its Marriott-managed hotels.

Second week of Waikiki hotel strike impacts American Dental Association Convention

(Honolulu Star-Advertiser) – By Kimberlee Speakman. HONOLULU (KHON2) – The American Dental Association Convention is in Honolulu this weekend, but with the hotel worker’s strike continuing into the second week, it’s affecting many participants staying in Waikiki.

ハワイのマリオット系列のストライキは開始から9日目~いまだ話し合いの席の予定は未定

( ブログナビ!ちゃおハワイHawaii) – 10/8(月曜)から始まったマリオット系列のホテル従業員のストライキは、「シェラトンワイキキ」、「ロイヤルハワイアン」、「ウェスティンモアナサーフライダー」、「シェラトンプリンセスカイウラニ」、「シェラトンマウイ」という人気ホテルに多大な影響を及ぼしています。

Three Sheraton Maui workers barred from property, one in handcuffs, as strike enters second week

(Maui Time) – By Axel Beers. Three Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa employees were “trespassed” and banned from hotel property for a year, after being stopped by security while distributing leaflets to guests on Oct. 12. The workers are among the 325 Sheraton Maui employees on strike and represented by the union UNITE HERE Local 5. One employee, Bernie Sanchez, was handcuffed by a Maui Police Department officer when she tried to leave the hotel grounds, the union said.