Demands include higher wages, better benefits, safer workloads, and the right to unionize freely.

[1][2] Often these women describe feeling "invisible"—expected to clean relentlessly without presenting a human face to hotel guests.

[3] The Hotel Workers Rising campaign has garnered the support of individuals and community organizations outside of the labor movement.

The groups orchestrated a successful joint campaign (which involved a "Kiss-In" as well as a boycott)[4] against the San Diego Grand Hyatt, whose owner Doug Manchester was a major supporter of California Proposition 8.

[7] Workers have been protesting at an Embassy Suites hotel in Irvine, CA, owned by MassMutual, which has not allowed them unionize.