"Another Boston Hotel Strike Is Now Underway", 5 September 2019

Nearly a year after hundreds of workers walked off the job at Marriott properties...a contract fight at another Boston hotel appears to have reached a breaking point, as...staff at...Battery Wharf Hotel have officially gone on strike.

About 75 employees...[are] calling for demands to be met after more than a year of stalled negotiations with...Westmont Hospitality Group, which operates the hotel. Unite Here Local 26...says it is seeking better pay and pensions, as well as a contract that preserves a union-provided health care plan and includes safeguards for immigrants and policies for sexual assault prevention...

...The union opposes the hotel’s moves to rewrite an agreement that the hotel help employees resolve immigration issues and guarantees that if a worker’s immigration status lapses, he or she can return to the job once authorized to work again. It also opposes the hotel’s efforts to move employees to an employer-sponsored health plan that the union says is more expensive than the one it provides...

...The hotel’s general manager Nick Teeson said in a statement to the Boston Globe in July that negotiators “are striving to reach a fair agreement for all involved.”...