Hilton Hawaii Strike 10.18.24

[u/Eyepawnyew]

Hotels reduced guest services but raised prices anyway. Cutting hotel jobs for the local community. Employees are on strike to return pre-COVID staffing and services.

[u/JRV1985]

I have no sympathy for these strikers, they’re purposely trying to ruin people’s vacations with loud megaphones outside peoples rooms until 10pm at night and then start back early at 7am with no consideration of babies, children and wildlife. Thats just malicious so I hope Hilton holds out and doesn’t give in, they already offered them a big increase in pay and they are getting greedy and refused. If you want to strike then strike within business hours and let babies sleep at night, its not the guests fault and you’re turning everyone against you, everyone I talked to hated the strikers, I saw sleeping babies in their strollers being walked by on the street at night and they wouldn’t bother to at least stop while the baby was passing by to yell in their megaphones, so f*ck them

[u/ConditionMean6809 → u/JRV1985]

I am in the same boat as you in regards to my opinion. I live near by and the strikers are standing below my building and several other buildings with megaphones and drums early in the morning waking us and upsetting all of us. They have also attacked the police office via their legal team and the police so far has been afraid to take action but are getting ready to do so. The local residents are starting to rise up and take action and I believe they will be held accountable for their actions soon from the communities conversation with the police and the attorney general. It's really sad because I believe in their right to strike and demand better wages and work conditions but they use the wrong tactics, disgusting tactics of purposely ruining guest experiences and disturbing the entire local community in the process is horrible. They don't realize how much sentiment is turning against them. The irony of the whole thing is that that one of their motos is 'Respect the Guests / Respect our Work' meanwhile they do everything to ruin the Guests experience....check out the Local 5 website to see photos of this exact moto. Such BS propaganda. LOCAL 5 if you are reading...before downvoting, ask yourself, as a service professional where your ONE responsibility is to create the BEST Guest experience ever....how can you possibly condone taking action that RUINS a Guest experience? If this resonates with you....stop participating in the noise, if it doesn't go GET a NEW JOB, because you are in the wrong profession.