My work isn’t unionized, but we are so fed up with our corporate office I’m considering bringing up our property going on strike. All of our housekeepers, front desk staff, even the supervisors.
Some context: we have been getting a TON of negative reviews lately because our guest computer isn’t working (the motherboard is fried) and HQ isn’t letting us replace it; BOTH of our ice machines are broken beyond repair and instead of replacing them, HQ told us to just go get ice from the gas station (the guests are super pissed about that because sometimes we run out); our workout equipment is broken and HQ refuses to let us pay to have a tech come out to fix it; we still have water damage from flooding over Christmas (HQ decided to just have the water extracted from the carpet and skip the microbial treatment); one of our two dryers is broken because of the flooding and is yet to be replaced or repaired resulting in us being WEEKS behind in laundry for the rooms; our GM was put on a spending restriction after starting to fix the list of things that need fixed and HQ has also been coming down on her for our review scores dropping because the things that need fixed haven’t been; HQ has been bitching about labor but we are already running a skeleton crew with only the necessary number of people on the clock to make sure the hotel runs the way it’s supposed to (they want us to cut labor so much it would basically only be one or two people working in the entire hotel at a time).
We’re all fed up. Many are considering quitting.