{"id":297757,"date":"2025-10-12T16:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297757\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:58:38","slug":"after-40-days-on-picket-line-union-workers-at-hilton-americas-houston-end-strike-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297757\/","title":{"rendered":"After 40 days on picket line, union workers at Hilton Americas-Houston end strike \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"Workers<\/p>\n

Kyle McClenagan\/Houston Public Media<\/p>\n

Workers picket outside of the Hilton Americas-Houston to demand higher wages on Sept. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n

Striking hotel workers have reached a deal with Hilton Americas-Houston that will raise the minimum wage of housekeepers, stewards and laundry attendants to $20 per hour.<\/p>\n

The workers’ union, UNITE HERE Local 23, negotiated a contract with Hilton that will raise employees’ hourly wages to $22 by the end of the contract. A union spokesperson told Houston Public Media the contract will last for three years.<\/p>\n

“This victory is an attestation of our members’ strength, their will, and determination,” Franchesca Caraballo, Texas chapter president of UNITE HERE Local 23, said in a news release.\u202f”They held the line for over a month in the heat and rain, as they fought to secure better standards after being left behind for so long.” <\/p>\n

Union leaders said the contract includes “strong job security protections,” better workloads for housekeepers and increased job safety.<\/p>\n

Union workers spent 40 days on strike, demanding Hilton raise their minimum hourly wage from $16.50 to $23.<\/p>\n

The hotel is owned by the Houston First Corporation, which promotes the city\u2019s tourism and convention industry. The corporation saw record-breaking profits<\/a> from the hotel in 2023 and all-time high revenue last year, though profits decreased due to record expenses.<\/p>\n

The union described the strike as the first in Texas history. Texas State University labor historian, Tom Alter, previously told <\/a>Houston Public Media that he couldn’t find another hotel strike in the state’s historic record.<\/p>\n

Hilton was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n

UNITE HERE Local 23 also represents workers at the George R. Brown Convention Center, who could also go on strike as they negotiate a new contract, aiming to raise minimum hourly wages from $16 to $23.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Houston Public Media, Houston First President and CEO Michael Heckman, President and CEO said he was glad both sides were able to come to an agreement. <\/p>\n

\u201cHouston First is pleased that Hilton and Unite Here Local 23 were able to reach a new collective bargaining agreement,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis deal gives our valuable hospitality workers, who are the lifeblood of our industry, a fair deal that reflects their hard work and dedication. <\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, we believe that the agreement reached meets the goal of balancing industry standards, the competitive marketplace, and the need to maintain and fairly compensate a strong and dedicated workforce. Labor negotiations can be complicated and we commend both sides for working in good faith to make this resolution possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Houston Mayor John Whitmire also shared a statement on social media in which he thanked all the parties involved for reaching a \u201cpositive outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle McClenagan\/Houston Public Media Workers picket outside of the Hilton Americas-Houston to demand higher wages on Sept. 2,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[64,10882,26568,130903,119201,4345,358,3187,133690,151834],"class_list":{"0":"post-297757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-city-of-houston","10":"tag-george-r-brown-convention-center","11":"tag-hilton-americas-houston","12":"tag-hilton-americas-houston-strike","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-unite-here-local-23","17":"tag-workers-strike"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115362261209182316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}