Last Updated on 07/31/2023 by てんしょく飯
A labor union representing thousands of room attendant employees at Los Angeles-area hotels in the U.S. state of California, who went on strike earlier this month demanding higher wages and better benefits, is asking U.S. singer Taylor Swift (33) to postpone her Los Angeles concert, which will be held for six consecutive nights starting August 3. The union is asking the singer to postpone her performance for six nights in a row starting on August 3.
Unite Here Local 11, a labor union representing 15,000 workers at more than 60 major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties, published an open letter to Taylor in the Los Angeles Times.
We make the beds, we clean the bathrooms, we attend to the every need of our guests. Your show brings a lot of profit to our hotel,” he prefaced the letter by pointing out that the hotel’s room rates have skyrocketed to two to three times the normal price due to Taylor’s performance, and that they also charge additional unnecessary fees, but their own employees do not benefit from any of this. They are asking that the show in Los Angeles be postponed until their employer agrees to pay them “the fair wages we are demanding.”
Taylor has been on her first major tour in nearly five years, “The Eras Tour,” which began on March 17 this year with 52 shows in 20 U.S. cities, and tickets have sold out in every location.
The tour has become the most popular tour of the year, and is reportedly bringing enormous economic benefits to the regions where it is held. According to the Hollywood Reporter, a study has shown that Taylor’s tour has the potential to generate as much as $5 billion in economic impact. During her three-day performance in Chicago, 44,000 hotel rooms were reportedly almost fully booked each night, earning $39 million, the highest weekend revenue in the city’s hotel industry history.
In advance of the Los Angeles show at SoFi Stadium, the Los Angeles Times reported that online booking sites have seen a 38% increase in hotel rates during the show.
In Los Angeles, the National Writers Guild and the National Actors Guild are also striking for the first time in 63 years, and hotel employees have joined in protest demonstrations around the city
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