More than 10,000 workers at 25 US hotels also went on strike yesterday after choosing the Labor Day weekend, a public holiday in the US, to expand their demands for higher pay, a fairer workload and an end to cut-offs from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reported, quoted by BTA.
The union Unite Here, which represents striking maids and other hotel workers, mostly women of color, said another 200 employees at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor hotel. have left work.
Almost half of the striking hoteliers - about 5,000 people - work in the city of Honolulu, the capital of the state of Hawaii.
Thousands of hoteliers are also on strike in Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego and San Jose in the states of California and Washington. The strikes that covered hotels of the American chains "Marriott", "Hilton" and "Hayat", are scheduled to last from one to three days.
"Unite Here" reported that a total of 15,000 hoteliers had voted in favor of holding the strikes, which could soon spread to other American cities, including New Haven, Connecticut, Oakland, California, and Providence, Rhode Island.