PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Workers at a handful of Philadelphia hotels have threatened to walk out during the FIFA World Cup if their employers don\u2019t meet their contract demands. They\u2019re looking for the same contract recently won by employees at three other hotels in the city.<\/p>\n
High wind gusts didn\u2019t deter members of UNITE HERE Local 274 from announcing their demands at 19th and Market streets Wednesday afternoon. Among other things, they want a minimum baseline pay of $30\/hour and better access to health care for workers\u2019 families.<\/p>\n
If the five hotels \u2014 the Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District, Hilton Garden Inn Center City, Warwick Hotel Rittenhouse, Penn\u2019s Landing Hilton, and Sheraton Downtown \u2014 don\u2019t offer satisfactory contracts by June 12th, UNITE HERE workers said they would walk out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know that they could make it more than a day without us,\u201d said Mariah Maglaughlin, a server at the Wyndham Historic District. \u201cWhat they have to decide is, how much of your reputation do you want to suffer until you decide to give us what we\u2019re worth?\u201d<\/p>\n
June 14 is the date of the first of six FIFA World Cup matches Philadelphia will host. Corean Holloway, who does laundry at the Warwick in Rittenhouse, said she and her colleagues are crucial to the success of this summer\u2019s semiquincentennial celebrations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to do the job, but give us a fair contract,\u201d said Holloway. \u201cIn Philadelphia, everybody is getting ready to make money. So why shouldn\u2019t it be shared with the people that work for them?\u201d<\/p>\n
KYW Newsradio is awaiting response from the five hotels\u2019 owners. The Rittenhouse Sonesta, Center City Hampton Inn, and University City Sheraton recently met these demands, which the union celebrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Workers at a handful of Philadelphia hotels have threatened to walk out during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2013,21743,18564,2561,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-198483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-hospitality","tag-hotels","tag-labor-unions","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}