Hospitality Workers Union Declares Solidarity With Writers Guild, Refusing To Cross Picket Lines At Area Hotels
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UNITE HERE Local 11, a Los Angeles-based union for hospitality workers is showing support for the writers strike by announcing that they “will not cross any picket line set up by the WGA.”
Hotels serve as popular production shoot locations, likely owing to the grandeur of such places. Films such as Home Alone 2, Ghostbusters, and even TV series such as Succession. As such, Local 11 has also been encouraging hotels in the Los Angeles area “to communicate with any production companies with whom you have relationships that it is in your, their, and the entire city’s best interests to reach a prompt and fair resolution to the dispute.”
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From the perspective of Local 11, “tourism and entertainment are by far Los Angeles’ most important industries,” and “when workers in our industries thrive, the city thrives.” So when workers in those industries “are mistreated, paid inadequate wages, or left with no job security, the entire city suffers. We rise or fall together.”
On May 2, after having their proposals rejected, the WGA began their strike. Wanting fairer compensation for the work that writers provide to studios, the union felt that those studios were “further devaluing the profession of writing” and forcing it to become “an entirely freelance position.” With the strike now almost coming to its third week, and with more productions being suspended whether voluntarily or not, all eyes are looking for a hopeful response to the WGA’s proposals.
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