If you don’t have a union, you don’t have the right to negotiate with management – nothing is negotiable – and management has the right to make every decision about your job. But as union members, we have the right to negotiate with our bosses over pretty much anything that affects us at work. For us, everything is negotiable, and that’s a great right for working people to have. It means we can challenge any managerial decisions that we consider unfair, and we can constantly negotiate to improve our working conditions. The strength of our numbers, and our solid unity, gives us bargaining power. So we are able to negotiate good deals that benefit us and are secured in a union contract.
A union contract is a binding legal document, enforceable under the law. A union contract can guarantee that the employees have:
- Job security
- Scheduling rights
- A fair system for settling employee complaints against management
- Extra pay for doing extra work
- Seniority rights
- Reasonable workloads
- Excellent medical benefits, paid for by the employer
- A secure retirement plan
- Health and safety rights
- Fair treatment and respect at work
Contact Us—It’s Confidential
If you work in a non-union hotel, we can help you. But first, it’s important that you keep your contact with the Union confidential. Do not tell your co-workers that you’re getting in touch with the Union. We don’t want management to find out about it, until we’re ready. The Union will keep your identity confidential as long as you want us to.
Our union organizes many non-union hotels every year. Together, with our help, you can bring the union into your hotel too. Call (787) 793-4070 and ask to speak with an organizer.