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Valdosta

(331 posts)
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 04:48 PM Oct 2023

L.A. hotels hire migrants from Skid Row homeless shelter to replace striking workers

L.A. hotels hire migrants from Skid Row homeless shelter to replace striking workers
LA Times

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Since more than 15,000 workers began intermittent strikes at about 60 Southern California hotels in early July, employers have been replacing those union members with managers and temporary workers recruited through apps, such as Instawork, staffing agencies and by other means. Vargas is among those from Skid Row’s migrant population who have been recruited in recent weeks to work at unionized hotels in Santa Monica and near Los Angeles International Airport where workers have gone on strike.

In addition to the Four Points by Sheraton hotel, migrants were hired at the Holiday Inn LAX and Le Meridien Delfina Santa Monica, according to interviews with migrants employed as temporary workers and organizers with Unite Here Local 11, the union representing striking hotel employees.


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L.A. hotels hire migrants from Skid Row homeless shelter to replace striking workers (Original Post) Valdosta Oct 2023 OP
Huh...from trespasser/vagrant/bum to... ret5hd Oct 2023 #1
Seems like divisive propaganda with focus on migrants TomCADem Oct 2023 #2
Migrants or no, it's scabbing. Valdosta Oct 2023 #3
But if it is poor, unhoused Americans? quaint Oct 2023 #4
The same, of course. n/t Valdosta Oct 2023 #5
Labor Should Be In Solidarity With Immigrants, Not Scapegoat Them TomCADem Oct 2023 #6

ret5hd

(21,320 posts)
1. Huh...from trespasser/vagrant/bum to...
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 04:57 PM
Oct 2023

valued employee.

Don’t thank them when they give you your paycheck…count your hours and figure your pay ‘cause they’re gonna steal from you.

Steal it back.

TomCADem

(17,760 posts)
2. Seems like divisive propaganda with focus on migrants
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 05:24 PM
Oct 2023

A lot of LA’s skid row population are NOT migrants. I can’t see hotel employers specifically looking for migrants among the homeless, particularly since there would likely be some language difficulties.

Suggesting that most of CA’s homeless are migrants is just buying into right wing racist stereotypes about the homeless.

The overwhelming majority of homeless people surveyed were locals, not migrants from far away.

TomCADem

(17,760 posts)
6. Labor Should Be In Solidarity With Immigrants, Not Scapegoat Them
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:18 PM
Oct 2023

It was a common tactic of management to try to play off racial and ethnic resentments to oppress workers. Now, you have “populist” conservatives attacking immigrants in an effort to win labor support only to pass anti-labor laws when elected.

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