"Southern California hotel workers vote to authorize potential strike over pay and benefits"

Hotel workers in California have voted 96% in favor of authorizing a strike over pay and working conditions. The decision impacts 15,000 hotel workers represented by Unite Here Local 11 in the Los Angeles area, which is preparing to host two major sporting events. Workers are pushing for a $10-an-hour wage increase, affordable family healthcare, retirement pensions, and safe workloads and staffing levels. The union provided hotels with a proposal in April 2023, but only heard back from the hotels with a counter proposal recently, which didn’t include any economic responses.