For Housekeepers’ Safety, Hotel Panic Buttons To Be Required In Chicago
For Housekeepers’ Safety, Hotel Panic Buttons To Be Required In Chicago
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Starting next month, Chicago will join Seattle in requiring hotels to provide all housekeepers with panic buttons they can use if they are sexually assaulted, harassed or threatened by a guest.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Ely Dar, a hotel housekeeper at the Westin Seattle, and Abby Lawlor, a researcher with Unite Here Local 8 in Seattle, a hospitality union which has been advocating for the panic buttons.
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