Posted on 05/18/2026 3:37:39 PM PDT by Round Earther
The average pay of housekeepers in New York City hotels will increase to more than $100,000 a year as part of a contract settlement between an industry trade group and a powerful union. The deal, which the group ratified on Monday, averts a threatened strike this summer that could have disrupted the influx of tourists expected for the World Cup and America 250 festivities.
The owners of nearly 250 hotels in the city reached agreement with the union, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, on an eight-year contract that would more than double base wages for workers, union officials said. The hotel owners will continue to pay the full cost of providing health-care benefits for 27,000 union members and their families.
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I could be wrong, but I don’t think there are too many housekeepers making $55k in Jackson, MS.
Right!
I always invest in large companies that hire the “bargain” CEOs.
(/s for the sarcasm impaired.)
I remember sleeping on the floor of Penn Station in NYC because I had missed the last train out for the night and had a long wait for the first train in the morning. It was fine; there were maybe a dozen of us in the same fix. At least in airports, there are chairs.
That may soon be the only affordable way to visit NYC. I was there a few weeks ago; very early train up and last train back on the same day. Both cheap given the hour.
I also slept on a bench in 30th Street Station in Philly for the same reason. A police officer woke me up in the wee hours and told me that if I wanted to wake up alive I should move over yonder. The section I was in had emptied out after I dozed off.
Ah, college days. College student travel. College student wallet.
Hotels in NYC were already very salty.
What will be the price now?
Can anybody afford it?
And most took good paying jobs from Amercan citizens.
Why stay in college? Why go to night school?
Gonna be different this time?
Well, no longer need to leave a tip on the pillow when they earn 2x my retirement.
P.S. Don’t forget to leave a tip for your housekeeper.
“Look both ways before crossing the street.”
I can't imagine wanting to visit that feces hole. There is nothing there worth my life or my money.
“The hotel industry needs migrant workers...”
Don’t forget to leave a tip.
No they won't, that'll kill tourism in NYC and businesses will move, switch to video conferencing, and otherwise do anything and everything to NOT go to NYC.
They sealed their own fate.
100 grand for a hotel maid.
Wow. I wonder when Vassar will roll this out as a major...?
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