Over 400 workers at a 1,200-key convention hotel walked off the job for 40 days and came back with a $20 floor heading to $22. If you're operating in a union-eligible market and think this stays in Texas, you're not paying attention.
Everyone's treating the new union organizing rules like a tidal wave. The reality is messier... some of those rules just got kneecapped in court, and the ones that survived are the ones most operators aren't paying attention to.
A boutique hotel's management told supervisors to "stop the union," dangled wage increases, and pressured employees to pull their cards. The labour board's response was the nuclear option: certify the union anyway, no vote required.
