Unite Here Local 26

After weeks of picketing Boston area hotels, a group of more than 700 Hilton hotel workers last Thursday signed a contract with owners securing wage increases and improved health care and retirement benefits.

Members of UNITE HERE Local 26 voted Sunday to ratify a contract with the Omni Parker and Omni Seaport hotels that delivered pay increases and improved retirement and health care benefits, ending a nearly week-long strike.

Visitors to Omni and Hilton hotels in Boston are being met by 24-hour picket lines as more than 1,200 local workers strike as part of a national push for better wages.

Right to the City Vote Boston, a coalition of community-based organizations led by people of color, threw its weight behind acting Mayor Kim Janey during an endorsement event Saturday morning in Nubian Square.