This month, Unite Here Local 274, a labor union of nearly 4,000 private sector hotel and food service workers, is going on strike.
After 17 months without a new contract, Unite Here is demanding that their member’s salaries rise with inflation and that their workplace conditions improve.
On the morning of Tuesday, October 7th, under the overcast sky and inundating buildings in center city Philadelphia, a group of around 50 hotel employees marched along the perimeter of the Sheraton in Center City, chanting “No Contract, No Peace”. The tone of the event was marked by the workers distress from being without a contract, and their hopes of having significant leverage in negotiations…