Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Times Square Hotel Workers Secure New Contracts

Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.

Members of the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council who work at the Fairfield by Marriott New York Manhattan Times Square and the Four Points by Sheraton Midtown have won their first union contract after 47 days on the picket line.

Workers at the New York City hotels voted to form a union back in 2022. In the years spent negotiating their first contract, staff have faced numerous unfair labor practices from management, including bad-faith bargaining and discrimination against union supporters. Hotel and Gaming Trades Council members walked off the job at the end of June and encouraged guests to boycott the locations for nearly three weeks in order to secure this victory.

“No one who works full time should have to choose between making rent and filling their prescription,” said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a rally in support of the hospitality workers. “No one should spend their days straining to make tourists feel comfortable only to spend their nights in pain from back-breaking workloads.…But above all, no one should forget this very simple truth: New York City is a union town. And we will always stand union strong.”