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 workersLA Times
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 Rows 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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ret5hd
(21,320 posts)valued employee.
Dont thank them when they give you your paycheck
count your hours and figure your pay cause theyre gonna steal from you.
Steal it back.
TomCADem
(17,760 posts)A lot of LAs skid row population are NOT migrants. I cant see hotel employers specifically looking for migrants among the homeless, particularly since there would likely be some language difficulties.
Suggesting that most of CAs 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.
Valdosta
(331 posts)But if it is migrants, they are victims not perpetrators.
quaint
(3,545 posts)Valdosta
(331 posts)TomCADem
(17,760 posts)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.