LAX food workers vote to authorize strike ahead of Labor Day weekend, pressuring tourism industry

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Cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders and other food workers at LAX have been stuck in negotiations since their contract expired in June 2022.

Hotel workers at several downtown L.A. properties walked off the job Wednesday, the latest action in a strike that began nearly two months ago.Airport workers are demanding higher pay to keep pace with an expensive housing market and heavier workloads caused by depleted staffing during the pandemic. Their asks echo those of the thousands of other Southern California tourism workers who have picketed this summer.

“Workers all over the city have reached their breaking point,” Minato said. “It’s time the industry pays workers their fair share, and if workers have to strike to make that happen, they will.”Areas was founded as a catering and concessions business in 1968 in Barcelona and eventually grew its reach globally in the travel hospitality industry.

 

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