HONOLULU — A Hawaii hospitality industry union has authorized a strike at six hotels operated by Marriott on Oahu and Maui. Members of the Unite Here Local 5 union voted Monday for a strike if contract negotiations with Marriott are not settled soon, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported . The union has been in contract negotiations with Marriott since June, said Eric Gill, the Local 5 secretary-treasurer. “Marriott’s proposal is to get another job.”Julie Gabot, a housekeeper at the Sheraton Waikiki, said that she voted yes for the strike “because our hotels keep squeezing us to work harder, while we get less. We need to fight for proper staffing and reasonable workloads so we can be healthy when we retire and not broken down.”——Information from: Honolulu Star-Advertiser, http://www.staradvertiser.com

Source: National Post September 12, 2018 05:39 UTC