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04 August 2000 |
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NewsHotel Workers Target Big Chains
Hotel workers throughout Australia have resolved to build on recent campaign successes and target the major hotel chains on common issues.
These include unreasonable demands on room attendants, more union rights, and improving the wages and conditions of more than 60,000 workers in the sector. The Hotel Union - the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) - held a three day national conference in Melbourne this week to agree on national strategies. "We are particularly interested in getting a greater level of security for the long-term casuals who work in the growing hospitality industry," Mr Tim Ferrari, the Assistant National Secretary of the Hotel Union said. "This is an industry where more than 50 per cent of the workforce is casual. Most of these workers want Hotel management to provide a greater sense of permanency in their working lives." The top five Hotel groups, which will be the target of a national campaign, are Accor, Starwood, Bass, Rydges and Mirvac. " The other important area of concern, reported at the Hotel Union's conference, was the high level of workplace injury - especially among room attendants. "The cleaning rates per shift that room attendants are being asked to accept are unreasonable and outrageous. Hotel management expectations of room attendants performance levels are, unfortunately, an important trigger for the increasing number of workplace injuries being reported to our union. "Hotel workers want the LHMU to act on this issue and get management to realise they need to reduce these excessive performance targets so as to protect the health of their employees." Tim Ferrari says hotel workers intend to be particularly vigorous against a number of 5 star hotels who have set up fraudulent non-union agreements.
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