A tentative contract agreement has been reached between the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel and UNITE HERE Local 274, ending a nine-day strike among workers at the hotel. <\/p>\n
The strike began June 21, 2026, when unionized hotel employees walked off the job in a dispute over wages and benefits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Under the tentative agreement, non-tipped employees’ wages will increase to $30 an hour by 2028, bringing the Sheraton in line with Philadelphia’s citywide hotel wage standard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition, the agreement includes a reduction in the daily room quota to 15 rooms for room attendants, an 18%\u00a0banquet\u00a0gratuity, major increases in pension, and improved access to dependent health coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“When we said we were fighting for $30 an hour at the beginning of this campaign, a lot of people told us we were asking for the impossible,” said Shafeek Anderson, a steward at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel. “With this victory, we have shown the whole industry that nothing is impossible when workers stick together.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Members of the union will hold a ratification vote on Monday, June 29, 2026, and if passed, the members will return to work on Tuesday, June 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The tentative agreement would end a\u00a0nearly two-year\u00a0contract dispute that began in 2024 between UNITE HERE Local 274 — which represents 4,000 private sector hotel and food service workers in the Philadelphia region — and the Sheraton.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tentative contract agreement has been reached between the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel and UNITE HERE Local 274,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6081,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-231272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-center-city-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231272","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=231272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}