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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait

More than 10,000 US hotel workers strike on Labor Day weekend

Striking hotel workers walk the picket line outside the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, California, in July 2023.
Striking hotel workers walk the picket line outside the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, California, in July 2023. Photograph: Ringo Chiu/AFP/Getty Images

Thousands of US hotel workers went on strike on Sunday for improved pay and conditions in a dispute likely to disrupt many Labor Day weekend holiday travelers, amid union warnings that industrial action could escalate.

More than 10,000 workers walked off the job at hotels in Boston, Seattle, Honolulu, Kauai and Greenwich, Connecticut, as well as the Californian cities of San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose after contract talks with the establishments’ owners collapsed.

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