Hilton Unlawfully Changed Housekeeper Duties, Labor Board Says

Hilton hotels broke labor law by giving Alaskan housekeepers more work without consulting their union after a collective bargaining agreement expired, the National Labor Relations Board has found.

A three-member NLRB panel wrote in a decision Thursday that the Hilton hotel in Anchorage, Alaska unilaterally added to housekeepers’ workload by imposing more burdensome cleaning requirements in renovated rooms in the absence of a collective bargaining agreement with Unite Here Local 878. The labor board panel included two Democratic appointees, Gwynne Wilcox and David Prouty, and Republican John Ring.

The union housekeepers had been working without a negotiated contract since 2016 ...