A bill pushed by UNITE-HERE Local 25, the union representing the city’s hotel workers, would limit hosts to renting out rooms in occupied units instead of whole houses or apartments.
The Washington Business Journal: Adams Morgan hotel project opposed by hotel workers union.
The Washington Post: Nearly a year in, Marriott Marquis says job training program has worked
Last May the Marriott Marquis opened with $206 million in public subsidies and a promise that the majority of their staff would be residents of D.C. 10 months later they have a 77 percent retention rate among residents of D.C. who had been hired through their training program and a rate of 28 percent for hourly workers who were graduates of the training program.
The Washington Post: Marriott to urge guests to tip their housekeepers as part of new campaign
Beginning this week, the initiative, called “The Envelope Please”, will begin providing envelopes in Marriott hotel rooms to encourage guests to tip the workers. To ensure that the tip goes to the person cleaning the room for the night, The American Hotel and Lodging Association suggests tipping between $1 and $5 to housekeepers.
The Washington Post: Muriel Bowser does hotel housekeeper’s work for a morning
Democratic nominee for mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, spent Tuesday morning at the marriott Marquis Hotel downtown joining housekeeper Juanita King on her daily tasks. Her housekeeper-for-a-day stint was organized by Unite Here Local 25, a local union representing members of the hospitality industry in Washington.