{"id":146831,"date":"2026-02-27T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146831\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:06:08","slug":"nyc-hotel-workers-union-gears-up-for-potential-strike-during-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146831\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC hotel workers union gears up for potential strike during FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City\u2019s powerful hotel union is gearing up for a potential strike if they don\u2019t get a new contract before the FIFA World Cup, which could throw a massive wrench in the festivities expected to bring in millions of visitors \u2014 and revenue \u2014 to the Big Apple, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The Hotel Trade Council has already launched its own website \u2014 fifahotelstrike.org<\/a> \u2014 in case no new deal is struck before its contract expires smack dab in the middle of the weeks-long tournament, offering visitors the option to search for strike-safe hotels or pledge their support for hotel workers.<\/p>\n

The union is also planning a rally on Friday with city elected officials to push for the increased contract as the City Council is slated to hold its first hearing on plans to host the global soccer competition.<\/p>\n

\"RichHotel Trade Council president Richard Maroko said he did not want to go on strike even as the union has launched a website preparing for a strike. Lev Radin\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Hotel Association of New York City President and CEO Vijay Dandapani raged that the union was holding the city hostage despite having an already cushy deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is extremely premature for the union to threaten a strike during the World Cup and put a huge economic opportunity for hotel workers and the city at risk,\u201d Dandapani said. \u201cIn fact, the union\u2019s own president has called our current contract the \u2018gold standard\u2019 for its members.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the union\u2019s current contract, a housekeeper makes $39.87 per hour as well as healthcare benefits and a pension.<\/p>\n

The existing contract, covering over 27,000 workers across over 250 properties, is set to expire July 1 \u2014 right in the middle of the June 11 to July 19 tournament.<\/p>\n

The soccer matches are estimated to bring over $3 billion in economic activity to both New York and New Jersey, which are co-hosting the games at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. <\/p>\n

\"AThe Hotel Trades Council is preparing to go on strike in the middle of the FIFA World Cup. Paul Martinka for NY Post<\/p>\n

Rich Maroko, the union president, insisted that HTC does not want to go on strike.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to make sure our members are fairly compensated with the strong wages and benefits they deserve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe encourage visitors to come to our city and enjoy the games, and to use this website as a resource to stay informed about the labor status of their hotels in the coming months,\u201d Maroko said, referring to the website.<\/p>\n

The website was launched so that tourists could register for updates on the labor status of their hotels during the matches.<\/p>\n

The New York City Council\u2019s Economic Development Committee will be holding an oversight meeting for World Cup preparations on Friday, with members of the union testifying and holding a rally at City Hall prior to the hearing.<\/p>\n

Neither the mayor nor the council responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s powerful hotel union is gearing up for a potential strike if they don\u2019t get a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[810,27949,57,9,56,63,65,64,3555,58,14771],"class_list":{"0":"post-146831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-hotels","9":"tag-htc","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-unions","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}