The federal government certified union at the Doubletree Arctic Club Hotel in Downtown Seattle
We
are excited to announce that there is a new unionized hotel in downtown
Seattle! The workers at the Doubletree
Arctic Club Hotel – located at the corner of 3rd Ave. and Cherry
St.
– have successfully organized and
are in the midst of negotiating their first collective bargaining
agreement.
“We workers at the Arctic Club are proud of our hotel, we love the
building and now we are proud to be a part of Local 8” said Ross Kavanaugh, a member of the organizing
committee who works at the hotel as a restaurant and banquet server. “The
organizing campaign brought us workers together as one and we look forward to
making our hotel an even better place to work in the future” Kavanaugh added.
This
is the first new hotel to be organized in downtown Seattle in quite some time
and UNITE HERE Local 8 is proud to welcome these workers into our union.
This successful campaign is part of a new phase of Hotel Workers Rising, which
