The restaurant industry has had its fights, even without the HTC contract. If your employer has not signed the protocol agreement and you are called back to work before you feel well, call your business agent at 212-245-8100 and press the option #1. In the early 2000s, the country`s hotel unions made «the decision that it was a better strategy to go up and down and try to organize from brand level than to try to convince employees and manage a management campaign» in individual hotels, said David Sherwyn, professor of hospitality human resources at Cornell University. Today, the increasingly dispersed hotel franchise market is making this strategy much more difficult. The traditional level of collective bargaining in France, which lies between the sectoral level (see the general branch agreement) and the level of the company (see agreement at the enterprise level). The term «industry» used here is contrary to a specific definition (see sector), because whether it is used for economic activity or for a group of economic activities (often called «industry» in English), its coverage owes much to history and little to a recognizable logic. The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO (HTC) is the union of hotel and gaming workers in New York and New Jersey. Our union represents approximately 36,000 non-executive employees who work in all hotel services. More than 300 hotels and other related companies employ our members and are under contract with our union. This represents about 75% of the hotel industry in New York City`s five neighborhoods.

Not all hotels have signed the new security agreement. To verify that your hotel has signed, click here. The Trades Council Hotel was established in the late 1930s as part of an extensive campaign to organize the hotel industry throughout the city. For more than seventy years, our Union has been a powerful force for social justice, progress and human rights. Membership of our Union is united and combative, but it is also incredibly diverse. They come from many nations and backgrounds and speak more than 50 languages. The workers represented by our union enjoy the best union contract for hotel workers in the world and guarantee excellent wages, benefits, working conditions and standards for fair treatment.