{"id":4646,"date":"2025-10-15T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/4646\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:38:11","slug":"hotel-worker-strike-ends-oct-14-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/4646\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel worker strike ends (Oct. 14, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s show: A strike by hotel workers at Hilton-Americas Houston has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/business\/2025\/10\/10\/533145\/striking-hilton-americas-houston-workers-negotiate-agreement-to-immediately-raise-minimum-wage-to-20\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ended after 40 days<\/a>. Late last week, the parties reached a deal to raise wages for housekeepers, stewards, and laundry attendants in a result that could have repercussions for the rest of Houston&#8217;s hospitality industry \u2014 and for labor in general. We learn the details of the deal and discuss what it means.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: A new book called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691238838\/police-against-the-movement?srsltid=AfmBOoqLAd7a1dh3szck3bovw3bOb1Vi9ZGlutOd-lDwLp7R4jRVfbtX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Police Against the Movement<\/a> explores police violence during the Civil Rights Movement with some focus on how the Houston Police Department tried to undermine activism here at the time.<\/p>\n<p>And, every week across Greater Houston, vendors visit festivals and other events to sell their wares. We visit the recent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bayoucityartfestival.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bayou City Art Festival<\/a> to talk to vendors about what that life is like.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday\u2019s show: A strike by hotel workers at Hilton-Americas Houston has ended after 40 days. Late last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4980,3104,4981,4982,577,4977,4983,4984,56,58,4978,57,4985,2557,865,66,223,4986,4987,4988,4979,51],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bayou-city-art-festival","tag-books","tag-civil-rights-movement","tag-event-vendors","tag-festivals","tag-full-show","tag-hilton-americas-houston-strike","tag-hospitality-wages","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-joshua-clark-davis","tag-labor","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local","tag-news","tag-police-against-the-movement","tag-protesting","tag-protests","tag-shows","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}