Worker Profiles
Isabel For over 20 years, Isabel “Segunda” Brentner has worked at the LAX Hilton, keeping her focus on her family and her job. “My priorities [were] to help my family,” says Brentner, who, along with raising her own children, cared for both her father and grandmother when they were ill. More

Enedina AlvarezEnedina Alvarez, a 54-year-old single parent, says she must be both mother and father to her teenage children. Yet, with two jobs, she has barely enough money to house, feed and clothe them—and precious little time to spend with them. Although she receives health insurance through her job, she cannot afford to insure her children. Alvarez says, “I pray to God that my kids do not get sick because I cannot pay the medical bills.” More

Who Are Hotel Housekeepers?*
Nearly all hotel housekeepers are women. The majority are women of color and immigrants.
There are 1.3 million hotel workers in the U.S. and 280,000 in Canada, of whom approximately one quarter are housekeepers.
Hotel Housekeeper Work Is Dangerous Work
Hotel workers have a 40% higher injury rate (5.9%) than workers in the service sector (4.2%).
According to a recent study of company records covering thousands of employee injuries, hotel housekeepers face an injury rate of 10.4%, almost double the injury rate for non-housekeepers (5.6%).
Hotel housekeeper injuries are debilitating. Back injuries, housemaids' knee (bursitis), and shoulder pain can lead to permanent disability.
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Buscan Mejores Salarios para Empleados de Hoteles
HOY - 12 de Octubre, 2006
Por Andrea Alegría

Un comité del Concejo de Los Ángeles aprobó ayer una iniciativa que otorgaría mejores salarios a los trabajadores de hoteles que están ubicados en el área del Aeropuerto Internacional de Los Ángeles (LAX).

La medida, que debe aprobarse por el pleno del Concejo, exige que todos los trabajadores de hoteles ganen un salario mínimo de 9.39 dólares la hora y que obtengan beneficios médicos. De no obtener beneficios médicos, los empleados obtendrían un sueldo de 10.64 dólares la hora.

Con esta acción, la Ciudad busca mejorar el bienestar de los aproximadamente 3,000 empleados que laboran en hoteles de la mencionada área, muchos de los cuales han venido librando una lucha por sindicalizarse con el respaldo del Local 11 del Sindicato de Empleados de Hoteles y Restaurantes UNITE HERE.

El pasado 28 de septiembre, unas 3,000 personas se manifestaron frente a estos hoteles y más de 300 de ellas fueron arrestadas en una demostración de desobediencia civil durante la cual exigieron, entre otras cosas, mejores salarios y beneficios médicos para estos trabajadores.

"Este es un primer paso emocionante para resolver los problemas que tienen los trabajadores de esta área, uno de los cuales son los salarios bajos", dijo Paulina González, vocera de UNITE-HERE Local 11.

González resaltó que muchos de los trabajadores de estos hoteles residen en las comunidades de Inglewood, Hawthorne y Lennox, en donde hay altos niveles de pobreza.

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LAX Hilton Boycott
Twenty-seven people were arrested in front of the Hilton LAX recently as 400 supporters watched. More
LAANE deputy director Vivian Rothstein explains why political and community leaders in Los Angeles and around the region are boycotting the LAX Hilton hotel. Listen


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