AFFILIATED LOCALS

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The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO (NYHTC) is the union that is the sole and exclusive collective bargaining representative of approximately 28,000 non-managerial employees of most New York City hotels (accounting for approximately 75% of the industry within the five boroughs).

The membership of our union is wall-to-wall (i.e., in all hotel departments), including: housekeeping, public space, dining room, banquet, room service, kitchen, stewarding, bar, mini-bar, audio-visual, front desk, reservations, PBX, bell and door services, concierge, night auditing, laundry, valet, engineering, maintenance, electrical, carpentry, painting, upholstery, business centers, night cleaning, health spas, security, garage, purchasing and receiving, and storeroom.

Since its founding in 1939, NYHTC has been uniquely successful in fostering multi-union cooperation through affiliation arrangements with a variety of local unions that provide our union with additional staff support and strength. So, a significant cross-section of the labor movement focuses its power on assisting our union to provide New York City hotel workers with the best contract, and contract enforcement, for hotel workers in the world. Eight local unions currently serve as affiliated service providers to NYHTC. Seven of these locals are also affiliated with other labor organizations, including the AFL-CIO, CtW, state and local labor federations, and various international unions.

Generally, NYHTC assigns its members (who are, first and foremost, members of NYHTC), at its discretion, secondary membership with one of these affiliated locals unions, and at its discretion, transfers its members between, into, or out of, affiliated locals. NYHTC (and not its affiliated locals) is the only certified and/or recognized collective bargaining agent of the employees it represents. Affiliated local union staff, when acting on behalf of NYHTC members, work under the control and direction of NYHTC officers and staff, and have no representational authority with regard to NYHTC shops except as authorized by NYHTC. NYHTC is the only union-signatory to all union contracts covering NYHTC members, and affiliated locals are not parties to, and have no independent rights under, those agreements.

The officers of NYHTC are directly elected democratically by the rank-and-file membership of the union. NYHTC is not an intermediate body as defined under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA).

NYHTC has authority to create its own subordinate locals, to accept new affiliated locals, or to terminate the affiliation of any local, and to reassign its members to a different affiliated local, or to no local, at its discretion, and at any time.

Affiliated locals have no governing role within NYHTC whatsoever. However, all affiliated locals are required to comply with the by-laws of NYHTC. Neither the local unions affiliated with NYHTC nor any of the other affiliated organizations to which they belong have authority of any kind over NYHTC. NYHTC is not a subordinate body of any other organization or entity.

NYHTC answers only to its own members.