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Boston City Councilors to Call for Hearing to Investigate Worker Safety Concerns at Wyndham Hotel

For Immediate Release: June 1, 2015 Contact: Dan Sibor, (617) 635-4561   Statement from Boston City Councilors Josh Zakim, Ayanna Pressley, and Tim McCarthy on Health & Safety Hazards at the Wyndham Hotel “We were shocked to learn about the unsafe working conditions facing staff at the Wyndham Boston Beacon Hill hotel, located at 5 Blossom Street and next to Massachusetts General […]

Channel 5: OSHA Investigating Boston Hotel After Staff Complaints

OSHA is investigating a Boston hotel after staff claims they were forced to regularly deal with bodily fluids and medical waste without proper equipment or training.

Boston Globe: A path to the middle class, via hotel work

THERE IS arguably no path to middle-class life in Boston more swift and secure than a job in a big hotel. But if you’re a member of Unite Here Local 26, the union that covers more than half of the hotel workers in Boston and Cambridge, the pay and benefits are striking:

Workers win union at Harvard-owned DoubleTree hotel

Workers at the Harvard-owned DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Boston-Cambridge in Allston announced Saturday they have won a union. Workers joined UNITE HERE Local 26, Boston’s hotel workers union, ending a more than 2-year public fight and boycott.

Boston Globe: Hilton Hotel Workers Vote to Unionize

After a high-profile, two-year effort to organize workers at the Hilton DoubleTree Suites hotel, involving a boycott, a sharply divided workforce, and an appeal to “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg, a majority of employees voted Friday to form a union.

Workers at Harvard-owned hotel win union, end boycott

Workers at the Harvard-owned DoubleTree Suites by Hilton in Allston announced Saturday that they have won a union. Workers joined UNITE HERE Local 26, Boston’s hotel workers union, ending a more than 2-year public fight and boycott. During the course of their campaign housekeepers educated the public about the pain they experienced cleaning hotel rooms. […]