What else can people do that helps room attendants?
They can put the towels in one spot. Put garbage in the can – if you leave it all over it gets confusing because it’s hard to tell what’s trash and what isn’t. Put your clothes on a chair, because when you leave them in the bed they can tangled up in the sheets. I’m paid to clean up, that’s my job, but those little things help. Why did you get involved in Local 6’s negotiating committee? I wanted to get a good contract. Until you go to these negotiations, you don’t see what management says or what’s going on. You see how management thinks about you and go “wow.” It’s like they don’t respect us, especially in housekeeping. They’re constantly trying to add amenities to the room, like robes. But that requires a lot of back and forth between the floors to pick them up, which takes extra time. We said we wanted to get paid extra if they did that. Any time housekeeping asks for money, the general manager says there is none, because we’re not a revenue department. We tell them, ‘Don’t keep ad
