Hotel workers in Seattle, Washington, strike, joining thousands of US strikers

More than a 100 Hilton edifice workers successful Seattle person walked disconnected the job, calling for higher wages, just staffing and workloads, and the reversal of COVID-19 epoch cuts, the Unite Here national said connected Saturday.

"The weeklong strikes by 374 workers astatine the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport and Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center volition past until the aboriginal hours of Oct. 19," the national said.

"We stay committed to negotiating successful bully religion to scope just and tenable agreements that are beneficial to some our valued squad members and to our hotels," a Hilton spokesperson said successful an emailed connection to Reuters.

More than 4,300 edifice workers are present connected onslaught astatine Hilton, Hyatt, and Marriott hotels successful Honolulu, Hawaii; Seattle, Washington, and the California cities of San Diego and San Francisco.

Around 2,000 workers walked disconnected the occupation successful September astatine Hilton's largest edifice successful the world, the Hilton Hawaiian Village successful Honolulu.

Some 10,000 U.S. edifice workers began a multi-day onslaught successful respective cities during the Labor Day play aft declaration talks with Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt stalled.

Unite Here represents workers successful hotels, casinos and airports crossed the United States and Canada.