Over 500 families received food boxes at the AFL-CIO drive-thru food distribution yesterday. Thank you to all of the Local 5 and community volunteers!
Graveyard shift holding down the picket line!
Clergy members from several local churches hosted a vigil for strikers including Rev. Neal MacPherson, Rev. Piula Alailima, Rev. Sam Domingo, Rev. Dr. moses Barrios, Rev. Jeannie Thompson, and long-time Local 5 ally Christy MacPherson who helped to organize the vigil.
Scabby the Rat made his debut on the beach last Friday.
Financial Secretary-Treasurer, Cade Watanabe, shared recent highlights of our strike and how he is confident that we are winning as we head into the second month of our strike.
“As we head into the second month we have to continue to remember that we’re in this together, that we are stronger together and we’re going to win so long as we have each other’s backs and we show and demonstrate the care and love that we have for each other because that is something that Hilton cannot take away.”
The Hilton Hawaiian Village is the largest property owned by the Real Estate Investment Trust Park Hotels. As a publicly traded company, Park holds quarterly earnings calls with its investors and it’s first call since the strike began at the Village is scheduled for tomorrow, October 30.
A recent article by Hotel News Now mentioned that during this call, “…analyst questions are likely to key in on strike impacts during Park Hotels & Resorts’ third-quarter earnings reports, in large part because of how much of an effect it can ultimately have on the REIT’s largest property, the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort. Analysts are focused on “hearing from a company like Park because they have been really silent about what’s happening in Hawaii,” Scholes said, noting negative national media coverage related to strikes and guest experience at the property.”
About UNITE HERE Local 5
Local 5 represents 10,000 workers throughout Hawaii who work in the hospitality, health care and food service industries and is an affiliate of UNITE HERE, an international union that represents over 250,000 workers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Hilton Strike Day 38 Bulletin – Thursday, October 31, 2024
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