Reports on the plans of the New York Hotel-Motel Trades Council to hold a protest against the Mariott Marquis hotel because it employs nonunionized employees. Picketing at an Anti-Defamation League fund-raiser at the hotel; Request of the council from...
tried to force New York City to provide separate hotel rooms to homeless New Yorkers during the pandemic, and won a policy victory with the passage of state legislation ending the “walking while trans” ban.
President, Hotel Trades Council Rich Maroko was elevated to lead the influential Hotel Trade Council after Peter Ward retired in August, a time when the industry was reeling from a steep drop in tourism and occupancy falling below 40% as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Maroko helped union...
Hoilett raped a 15-year-old girl in Newburgh in 2011, according to the New York State Sex Offender's database. He was sentenced to three years in prison. Due to his previous felony convictions, he was held in Ulster County Jail with no bail....
In this video from last month, Mayor de Blasio was at the opening of the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council & Hotel Association of NYC Brooklyn Health Center where he delivered congratulatory remarks. At the clinic, hotel workers are able to benefit from health care at zero cost. ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In New York City, you need a license to cut hair, work as a tour guide or operate a doggy day care. But you do not need one to run a hotel.
“We congratulate and thank Mayor Adams and Speaker Adams for their hard work and thoughtful negotiations on this budget,” saidRich Maroko, president, Hotel & Gaming Trades Council. “This budget will deliver for New York City’s working families and will ensure the critical servi...
Advertisement “After 14 months of negotiations, they handed us their last and final offer,” said Pitta, president of the Hotel and Motel Trades Council, a local affiliate of the AFL-CIO. “It is no better than the offer 14 months ago.” ...
“I share the president’s concerns about the impacts to working class Americans who now have an additional financial burden to account for in their daily lives,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. After all, how do you expect these working class drivers...
The Hotel Trades Council has long sought a citywide special permit and has succeeded in getting piecemeal implementation under both the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations. Last year, the labor organization began to make headway...