The Hotel and Gaming Trades Council reached an agreement with the Hotel Association of New York City on a new Eight-year Industry-Wide Agreement.
This new agreement delivers the biggest wage increases in the union’s history, maintaining free family healthcare, increasing pension contributions, providing new benefit funds to address rising costs in housing and child care, protecting members’ jobs, improving paid time off, expanding members’ rights at work, and strengthening the union’s already unparalleled ability to enforce the contract – all without a single giveback.
This long-term contract provides members with 8 years of guaranteed wage increases and benefits. The raises in this new contract are the highest in the union’s history. Over the life of the agreement, the wages will increase, on average, by more than 50%. By the end of the contract, Room Attendants and other non-tipped workers will be earning six-figures.
The agreement also maintains free family healthcare benefits. Healthcare was a defining issue in these negotiations due to significant, unexpected increases to healthcare costs at the end of 2025. The new agreement protects free family healthcare for the life of the contract – without a single reduction in benefits and without passing any costs to members. Under the terms negotiated by the union, employers will increase their contributions to the Health Benefits Fund by 3 percentage points.
The new contract also provides an increase in employer contributions to the Pension Fund in the first year of the contract – on top of the contribution increase that went into effect this past January.
