The strike follows other industry strikes with workers pushing for better pay and working conditions amid a surge in the cost of living.
Fifty days into a strike with no end in sight, about 1,000 Hollywood writers and their supporters marched and rallied in Los Angeles for a new contract with studios that includes payment guarantees and job security. Thousands of hotel workers in Southern California went on strike Sunday, calling for higher wages and better benefits in what the union is calling the largest U.S. strike in the industry's history.
The work stoppage also comes at the beginning of the Fourth of July extended holiday weekend and a busy tourist season. The union also wants to create a"hospitality workforce housing fund" to help hotel workers deal with the soaring costs of living in Southern California. Many union members said they live hours away and have to commute because they can't afford to live near their jobs.
"With these extraordinary raises, I will no longer have to choose between paying my rent and putting food on the table for my family," Nancy Cerrato said in a statement."We have given our lives to this industry. We deserve respect and to be able to afford to live in the city where we work." "From the outset, the Union has shown no desire to engage in productive, good faith negotiations with this group," the hotel coalition said in a statement Sunday."The Union has not budged from its opening demand two months ago of up to a 40% wage increase and an over 28% increase in benefit costs."
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