“We need a mayor who will stand with the working people who keep this city running and who isn’t afraid to take on powerful corporate interests when they threaten our communities,” Unite Here Local 11 co-president Ada Briceño said in a statement. “Nithya Raman will fight alongside our members to protect working families, enforce our laws, preserve our housing, and hold corporations like Airbnb accountable when they take desperately needed homes off the market.”
The union represents more than 32,000 hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona.