The Industry-Wide Agreement (IWA) is the collective agreement between the New York Hotel Trades Council and the New York City, Inc. Hotel Association. Today, the IAA includes 28,000 members of the Hotel Trades Council of New York – the vast majority of our union members, including employees of all types of hotels and motels, large or small, not only in downtown Manhattan, but throughout New York City, including the outskirts. HTC has also built political power at the state and local levels by mobilizing to elect candidates who support workers, eliminating elected officials who don`t. We use this power to pass laws that protect our jobs and help workers in our communities. We recently supported legislation that can help all hospitality workers, including non-unionized workers like you, have safer working conditions during this public health crisis. Despite growing anti-union sentiment in the United States and a precarious economy, our Union`s leaders have managed to extend the Union`s sectoral agreement (“IWA”) by 7 years. Management not only resisted the industry`s outrageous list of concessions, but also secured large wage increases, increased funding for the union`s pension and health fund, and secured important job security protections in the new contract. A full summary of the agreement, a list of hotels that have signed it and the text of the actual agreement can be found here. The New York Hotel Trades Council, AFL-CIO, has completed the first negotiations on a new industry-wide agreement with the New York City Hotel Association, Inc.
(the organization that represents the city`s hotel owners), which covers about 21,000 of the union`s 32,000 members. A: While no one knows when and how we will resume our normal lives, you can be sure that you have “recall rights” under the IAA. This means that if you have been laid off as soon as your work is available again, the hotel will have to call you back to work in order of seniority – not because of special treatment or preference. 3 Q: Will I be called back to work when the coronavirus pandemic is over and business returns to my hotel? In January 2020, we had the pleasure of laying the foundation stone for the construction of a new state-of-the-art Queens Health Centre. Unfortunately, construction of the new Queens Health Center has been suspended due to the coronavirus and its impact on the industry. However, the agreement negotiated by our Union on the coronavirus safety protocol goes even further and significantly multiplies our rights to PPE and a safe working environment. To find out more about the August EU agreement extending healthcare for another month and extending the Coronavirus Safety Protocol Convention for the duration of the public health crisis, click here. This is a summary of a small handful of contractual guarantees in our union`s framework agreement, the Industry-Wide Agreement (also known as the “IWA”). IWA has approximately 28,000 hotel employees in New York and is considered the best contract in the world for hotel employees. Not all hotels have signed the new security agreement. To check if your hotel has signed, click here.
Members` benefits are subject to the eligibility rules of each plan, and coverage is determined by the conditions set out in the individual collective agreements between the union and the employer. This page contains a brief description of some of the key benefits available to members of our union for which employers must pay under the collective agreement. A more complete and/or up-to-date description of benefits, eligibility and waiting times as well as recent changes to benefits can be found in the summary descriptions of individual schemes (SPDs). Pharmacy services are available to eligible members (and their insured dependents) who work full-time and use health centre services. Prescriptions can be filled at one of the four health centre pharmacies located at the centre. The pharmacy formula offers members a wide range of drugs for modest co-payments. It covers most generic drugs for a $5.00 co-payment (if a generic is available) and many brand-name drugs for a $15.00 co-payment (if a generic is not available). The New York Hotel Trades Council, AFL-CIO (HTC), has a rich and proud history as a progressive and fighting union. For more than 80 years, he has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of hotel employees and their family members. The wages, benefits and protections enjoyed by workers represented by our union are determined by your union contract. For more than 80 years, our union has fought fiercely for many benefits, including high wages, free health care for families, a well-funded pension, and the best protection and rights for hotel workers around the world.
During the current crisis caused by the coronavirus, certain contractual guarantees are in place regarding dismissals, recall and seniority rights, as well as health and safety which have become increasingly important. To check the strengths of these contractual clauses, please select the framework agreement that covers your hotel/casino/restaurant: as union members, the law gives us the right to negotiate in groups with our bosses just about anything that concerns us at work. For us, everything is negotiable, and this is a great right for workers. .