Hotel Workers Rising Comes to Nation’s Capitol

While Senate Debates Employee Free Choice Act, D.C. Hotel Workers Rally For Workers’ Rights

On Thursday, April 12, hundreds of Washington D.C. hotel workers will join with UNITE HERE International President Bruce Raynor and Local 25 Executive Secretary-Treasurer John Boardman to rally for workers’ rights, affordable healthcare, retirement with dignity, and job security.

WHO: Hundreds of D.C. hotel workers, including cooks, housekeepers, waiters, and dishwashers, UNITE HERE International President Bruce Raynor, UNITE HERE Local 25 Executive Secretary-Treasurer John Boardman

WHAT: Hotel Workers Rising March and Rally

WHEN: Thursday, April 12, 5:30 PM March over Taft Bridge (Connecticut Ave Bridge), followed by 6:00 PM Rally at Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

WHERE: 24th St NW, Between Connecticut and Calvert, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

“Hotel Workers deserve to be a part of the middle class,” says Boardman. “They are fighting for a better life for themselves and their children; there are so many other hotel workers in our city who don’t even have the chance to get a middle class job because they are not part of a collective bargaining agreement.”

Over 4,500 Local 25 members are affected by collective bargaining agreements that will expire on Sept. 15. Local 25 members will be calling for their employers to sign a contract that guarantees them affordable healthcare for families, a pension that provides dignity in retirement, and job security protections.

Local 25 members also are joining thousands of hotel workers around the country in calling for the right to form unions and be a part of the American Dream. The national Hotel Workers Rising campaign is dedicated to improving conditions for workers at hotels, both in the nation’s capital and around the country, including helping them to form unions to pull one another above the poverty line and make a better life for themselves and their families.

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