New York Hotel and Motel Trade Council, AFL-CIO (Abbreviation: Hotel · Trade Council) are union of hotel workers in New York City. Our 27,000 extremist members have a background of diverse ethnicity and ethnicity, including many immigrants and women.
Trade unions are the most important progressive and grass-roots organization in the United States. Unlike many other non-profit organizations, unions are totally ruled and funded by the constitution they serve, ie workers constituting the members.
Every day, the union is at the forefront of a true fight for democracy and justice.
The New York Hotel Trades Council was formed in the large campaign organizing the hotel industry in the late 1930s.
In the meantime, the hotel employee was one of the most exploited workers in New York. The working conditions were horrible. The treatment was unfair and sneaky. There was no profit. Time was terribly long, wages were not badly low.
All previous attempts at unionization, including general strikes by workers at hotels and restaurants in New York City in 1912, were all collapsed by the hotel owner.
Our first industry-wide contract was signed on January 18, 1939 and includes breakthrough provisional prohibition discrimination in employment. The Hotel Trades Council and its related locations have been at the forefront of the civil rights movement since.
Over 70 years, our union is a powerful force for social justice, progress, human rights, literally improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of hotel workers and family members.
