(Hawaii Public Radio) – By Ryan Finnerty. It’s been one week since 8,000 workers at Marriott Hotels walked out on strike in eight cities around the country. Here in Hawai‘i, 2,700 workers are on the picket lines outside five hotels managed by Marriott and owned by Kyo-Ya. They are demanding higher wages, protections against sexual harassment, and guarantees about not being replaced by automation.
(KHON 2) – By Sara Mattison. HONOLULU (KHON2) – 27-hundred hotel workers have taken a stand for better pay. Now they’re on day seven of striking against five Kyo-ya owned hotels on Oahu and Maui. The impacts on tourism may not be immediately noticeable but the noise from picketers is loud and clear.
(Honolulu Star-Advertiser) – By Allison Schaefers. Some 2,700 Marriott hotel workers in Hawaii spent a sixth day on strike Saturday, seeking higher wages and better benefits while exacerbating challenges to the state’s visitor industry, which already has had to deal with floods, a volcanic eruption and hurricanes.
(Daily Kos) – By Laura Clawson. Thousands of Marriott hotel workers are on strike in eight U.S. cities in a campaign with the slogan “one job should be enough.” The workers’ union points out that Marriott’s profits have risen by 279 percent since the great recession, while worker pay has gone up only seven percent. “As the largest hotel employer in the world, Marriott can set the standard in the hotel industry,” they write, and that standard should be that one job is enough.
(Hawaii News Now) – By HHN Staff. WAIKIKI (HawaiiNewsNow) – Saturday marks day six of the hotel workers strike in Waikiki and across the nation as workers demand better wages and promising benefits.
(The Maui News) – As a strike by hotel workers moved into its fifth day, the owner of the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa said Friday that it is “committed to continuing our good faith bargaining.”