Hotel workers on strike at Seattle’s Embassy Suites Downtown Pioneer Square are signing up for unemployment benefits on Thursday.
Workers represented by UNITE HERE! Local 8 are entering their third week of the strike, calling for higher wages, year-round healthcare, restored pre-pandemic staffing levels, and protections against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions.
“The company is offering us pennies and refusing to work with us to make sure everyone has healthcare. It’s beyond disrespectful,” said Una Scott, a front desk agent at the Embassy Suites Seattle Downtown Pioneer Square. “The unemployment benefits for striking workers will let me pay some bills while my coworkers and I keep standing together to fight the massive corporation that is Hilton. We’re going to make them respect us.”…