Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A union member listens as a speaker talks on issues of the working poor during a Unite Here unionized hotel workers campaign on ...

Gerald Byers began working at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown in 2017. The hotel employed 700 room attendants for the 765 guest rooms. Now, Byers is one of just 50 in the housekeeping department.

The Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown and the Hampton Inn Philadelphia Center City union hotel staff walked out of work and onto picket lines Sunday morning, two weeks after Sheraton workers voted to ...