{"id":227336,"date":"2026-06-25T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227336\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:15:09","slug":"warwick-hotel-employees-authorize-strike-if-new-deal-isnt-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227336\/","title":{"rendered":"Warwick Hotel employees authorize strike if new deal isn&#8217;t reached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Workers at another Center City hotel have voted to authorize a strike should a new contract not be in place by 12 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at the Warwick Hotel, located on 17th Street between Walnut and Locust streets, voted unanimously on Wednesday to authorize a strike. <\/p>\n<p>Hospitality workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 274 have been negotiating for a minimum wage of $30 an hour for non-tipped workers, gratuity on banquets held at the hotel, and a 15-room daily quota for housekeepers, among other demands.<\/p>\n<p>The Warwick is also the fourth Center City hotel to potentially see a workers&#8217; strike during the current contract cycle. Workers at the Hampton Inn Center City and Wyndham Historic District hotels also hit the pickets lines, but both recently ratified new contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, workers at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel at 17th and Race streets entered their fourth day on the picket line.<\/p>\n<p>Union leaders said workers there are fighting for a $30 per hour wage by 2028 and access to family healthcare. Demonstrators marched from the Sheraton to the Warwick Wednesday afternoon ahead of a bargaining meeting between labor leaders and hotel management.<\/p>\n<p>KYW Newsradio&#8217;s Nigel Thompson and Shara Dae Howard contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Workers at another Center City hotel have voted to authorize a strike should a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18564,2561,69,71,70,2957,69741],"class_list":["post-227336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-hotels","tag-labor-unions","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-strike","tag-unite-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227336","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=227336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}