Accor: union wins in Indonesia and Canada
...Union signed between the Union and Accor applies also to Vrancor, a local hotel ownership group which bought the hotel in 2015. The Union and workers are now bargaining a...
Indonesian Accor Union Council joins global housekeepers initiative
The Accor Union Council of Indonesian IUF-affiliate FSPM decided to support the global housekeepers initiative at its meeting in Jakarta on February 13, 2015. Heavy workloads from increased room quota...
Korean union highlights plight of precarious women workers in housekeeping
...schedules, making them more vulnerable to the poor working conditions faced by housekeepers. Make Up My Workplace pamphlets in Korean language were distributed outside Accor’s Novotel Doksan in Seoul. koreaHousekeepers.jpg...
Indonesian Accor workers get support from IUF members in India
Hotel workers in Dehli and Goa held protest actions in support of their sisters and brothers harassed by Accor management at the Ibis Tamarin in Jakarta Indonesia (read more here)....
Accor Canada workers demand their rights!
Workers at Accor’s Novotel Mississauga in Ontario, Canada are determined to have the collective agreement they thought would be theirs after the Ontario Labor Relations Board in September 2012 ordered...
Accor hotel housekeepers against outsourcing in Madrid
Members of the IUF-affiliated Comisiones Obreras organized a strike on September 16 in front of Hotel Mercure Plaza de España to protest mass layoffs in the housekeeping department. Since the...
Fiji: tourism workers defend their rights
...recognition and impose obstacles to collective bargaining. International hotel chains, such as Accor, are taking advantage of military dictatorship’s repression of unions (click here for more) to increase precarious employment....
End of conflict at Hotel Capitol Geneva
...Management SA, was in advanced talks with Accor, French transnational hotel operator, for a management contract at the re-opening, workers were also asking to be employed in one of the...
Accor’s shareholders face workers protest
IUF-affiliated CFDT held a protest April, 25 in Paris outside the Accor annual shareholder meeting at the company’s Novotel near the Eiffel Tower. The union action was organized to protest...
Geneva – workers thrown on scrapheap while hotel gets overhaul
...Accor operates in Geneva and to be re-hired at the re-opening. However, during a meeting on April 9 with IUF-affiliate Unia and workers’ representatives, both Capitole Management and Accor refused...
Government of France says Accor violated international guidelines on responsible business conduct
...on Multinational Enterprises has determined that Accor consistently violated the Guidelines and that “blockages” must be overcome for Accor to be in compliance. The determination (available on the website of...
Accor again guilty of labour law violations in Canada – this time by its own admission!
...on duty in the workplace. Accor management, however, has insisted that under this policy even speaking about the union was banned, and could be grounds for discipline or dismissal! Accor’s...