Four months before their existing contracts were set to expire, more than 600 Hilton Hotel workers represented by Unite Here Local 1 and Local 450 have reached a five-year contract settlement with the hotel chain.
Workers’
from the Drake, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago Hilton, and Hilton O’Hare
voted Saturday to ratify the agreement with the Virginia-based hotel chain, well before the August 31 contract expiration date.
“This is really significant in that this has all
been done before the expiration of the current contract,” said Carly
Karmel, spokesperson for Unite Here.
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On Friday, outside the front doors of the Congress Plaza Hotel, a
group of striking hotel workers were joined by hundreds of supporters
marching in a noisy picket line to mark the ninth anniversary of the
nation's longest-running strike. 
The latest chapter in the ongoing labor dispute between Hyatt Hotels
Corp. and workers unfolded Thursday as union members took to the picket
line to protest against claims the hotel chain planned to cut worker
health benefits by early next year unless their boycott came to an end.
Unite HERE’s week-long strike at six Hyatt Hotels in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Honolulu comes to an end today. The union hopes to pressure the hotel chain into a fair contract following two years of working without one. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined more than 200 picketers at the Hyatt Regency on Wacker Drive this morning to close out the strike.