This morning thousands of Hyatt hotel workers across the country walked out on strike demanding justice on the job for unionize and non-union hotel workers.[1] Many of these workers are women who work as housekeepers in the hotels. Hotel work is highly gender segregated with housekeeping as an almost solely female job. In non-union hotels, [...]
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Emily is a professor of labor studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She spent over fifteen years working in the food service industry and was a member of UNITE HERE Local 1 in Chicago prior to getting her PhD in American History. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two sons.
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Supporting Workers’ Rights Builds a Sustainable Future
This was originally posted on the Holistic Moms Network blog in August. This month the Holistic Moms Network took a huge step in support of working-class mothers that could ultimately mean the financial ruin of the organization. They moved their Natural Living Conference from a boycotted hotel (the Hilton Long Beach) to the Irvine Marriott. [...]
