The Sacramento Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hotel workers plan to hold a public demonstration outside the Hilton Arden West Hotel Tuesday afternoon to protest the hotel’s last best offer to union employees.
Mickey News (Free subscription) | yesterday
About 75 Disney hotel workers walked out on their jobs Sunday morning because of a dispute about their workloads, forcing Disney managers to assign other employees to fill in.
WeHo News (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (December 7, 2009)A couple hundred Unite Here Local 11 union hotel workers marched the Sunset Strip while brandishing signs in the first volley in the negotiations over a new contract. The union fears hiring freezes, pay cuts, reduced benefits or other givebacks.The hotel's manager, Michel Morauw, told WeHo News that a street protest...
HispanicTrending (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
November 29, 2009 By Niala Boodhoo Hotel chains like to tout their large, comfortable beds as a selling point, but those 125-pound mattresses are probably causing greater injury to female, Latino and Asian hotel workers, according to a study to be published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. The union Unite Here provided data on 2,865 injuries at 50 hotels owned...
PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
A study found that women hotel workers were 1.5 times more likely to suffer injuries than males. Injuries to Hispanic women hotel workers were double that of white women. Meanwhile, Asian and Hispanic male employee injuries were 1.5 times greater than whites. Susan Buchanan, MD, of the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, is [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Hotel workers from Musanze and Rubavu districts on Friday completed a Rwanda Development Board (RDB) sponsored course on customer care. The course is offered by the Work force Development Agency (WDA)
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Protesters warn L.A.-area employers that they would not accept pay cuts, reduced benefits or other givebacks. Hundreds of hotel workers rallied along the Sunset Strip on Friday, warning Los Angeles-area employers that they would not accept pay cuts, reduced benefits or other givebacks.
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
A 25-year-old woman has been arrested for keeping endangered animals as pets in a condominium unit in Kuala Lumpur. The hotel worker has kept a young Malayan honey bear, a leopard cat and a slow loris, which are defined as endangered species, in individual cages in the unit belonging to the woman and a male relative of hers, local media reported on Tuesday. The woman claimed that the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
One of the most senior British Army Officers to be charged over the death of Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa has claimed he previously raised concerns that soldiers were going "over the top" with detainees.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
One of the most senior British Army Officers to be charged over the death of Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa has claimed he previously raised concerns that soldiers were going "over the top" with detainees.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
A senior British army officer cleared of negligence over the death of Baha Mousa had raised fears soldiers were going "over the top" in their treatment of detainees before the 26-year-old Iraqi hotel worker died in custody in Basra, an inquiry heard today. Major Michael Peebles, the battle group internment review officer at the southern Iraqi base, told the inquiry into Mousa's...
