NYC Housekeepers and 18+ dollar/hr pay

Factual Questions
1

Faced with possible strike in Chicago by hotel workers, I keep reading about how hotel workers in NYC are pulling in 18.00/hr plus pay. Housekeepers, operators etc.

http://www.chicagohoteldeadline.com/

If you go to the issues they say how much workers in different big cities get. Now I work in Chicago and our housekeepers are only getting about 7.00 which is a dollar some less pay than the website says.

I also am training mgrs in NYC and no one is getting near 18.00. The Credit Mgr and Acctng mgr for example are getting 18.50/hr.

So my question is what hotels are paying so much that it is inflating the average.

I only get a cite from the union of the 18.00 plus per hour wages

Does anyone KNOW of any NYC housekeepers, bellman etc making that much?

2

Short answer

Livign in/around NYC is F*&%en expensive

3

The key word here, as I see it, is union.

Is your hotel a union shop? (If there’s a giant, inflatable rat outside the building, I’d venture to say it’s not. NY Dopers will know what I mean.)

What union gave you the $18.00 cite?

4

Uh, could a mod please add a backslash to that second bracketed quote please? Thanks.

5

Check out

www.chicagohoteldeadline.com

And check the links for pay around the country.

Yes our hotel is union but even in NYC our hotels are union and we don’t come close to that.