Food service workers held escraches* against

several hotels in Buenos Aires

Juan José Bordes, UTHGRA labor secretary, demanded “that workers be paid decent wages.” In front of the Alvear, Four Season, and Plaza hotels, he also declared that “hotel and restaurant workers around the country are standing up for their rights because regrettably the 4 and 5 star hotels organized in the Tourism Hotel Association (AHT) refuse to give workers a decent raise.”

Consulted as to what the following steps are, he said that “we will continue with the mobilization in the rest of the country, at every 4 and 5 star hotel that belongs to the AHT, where fellow union members will conduct escraches similar to the one we’re holding today in Buenos Aires.”

When asked if the AHT president was ignoring their demands, he stressed that he “doesn’t think so; he knows very well what we’re asking for, but the problem is that the ‘black hand’ at play here doesn’t want us to have a more than 16.5 % raise.”

* Escrache: public exposure protest