Striking Chicago hotel workers reached Thursday an agreement with Marriott Hotels, the mayor’s office announced.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel commended members of UNITE HERE Local 1 and Marriott for staying at the table and “working in good faith” to reach an agreement.
“This agreement is a significant step forward for the union, the hotels and the city and I am confident it can light a path forward to ending the labor action at other hotels in the city,” he said in a statement. “Chicago is on pace of another year of record tourism, and the hard-working men and women who keep our hotels up and running are an important part of that progress.”
Emanuel lauded the fact that workers and their families would receive health care under the contract with Marriott.
According to the city, at the end of August, Chicago hotel demand in terms of rooms occupied grew 5.8 percent.
