DoubleTree Hotel Workers Approve Unionization

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http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/4/13/doubletree-workers-approve-union/

By WILLIAM C. SKINNER and EMMA K. TALKOFF, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS 16 hours ago (over the 12 hour limit for LBN)

Following a campaign of more than two years that included demonstrations, a strike, and a boycott, workers at the Soldiers Field Road DoubleTree Hotel, a Hilton Hotels enterprise housed in a building owned by Harvard, have organized with the UNITE HERE! Local 26 union, according to workers and union representatives.

On Friday, an arbitrator verified with both union and hotel management that a majority of the hotel’s workers had voted in favor of unionization, according to Local 26 president Brian Lang.

Spokespeople for Hilton Hotels and Resorts did not respond to requests for comment over the weekend. Jeff Neal, a Harvard spokesperson, wrote that the University is “pleased that the two parties have agreed to a process that will determine the issue of unionization at the DoubleTree Hotel.”

Lang praised the outcome.

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Published on Nov 21, 2014
Outside the Science Center on Thursday, November 20, Double Tree housekeepers, student advocates, and union representatives protested working conditions at the hotel, which is operated by Hilton but located in a Harvard-owned building. Hundreds attended the protest, which was organized by the Harvard Student Labor Action Movement and UNITE HERE! Local 26, the labor union that represents Harvard's dining hall workers. Reporters: Mariel A. Klein and Madeline R. Lear, Produced by Madeline R. Lear/The Harvard Crimson.