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Will Meetings Thrive in 2024?

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Having interviewed experts from both sides of the equation, this paper will offer advice on what those shifts are and how you can benefit from them. If a group is looking to book in 2024, Omni may negotiate contracted rates and concessions if they will book more of their meetings with a sister Omni hotel in future years.

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Las Vegas Hospitality Workers Authorize Strike on The Strip Weeks Ahead of IMEX America

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“They continue to have productive meetings with the union and believe both parties are committed to negotiating a contract that is good for all. Read More : LA Hotel Strike Impacts Political Science Annual Meeting Forty thousand are currently working under an expired contract at 22 casino resorts divided among the three hotel brands.

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When to Embrace Change—and When to Hold Your Ground

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A veteran planner explains how to push back tactfully but effectively when a proposed change isn’t for the better. After doing that, you can say, ‘It can be done, but you can see that there is nowhere near enough benefit to spending all the time and money necessary to make that change.”

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Will New Labor Deals Bring Budget Blues to Meetings?

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As with recent hotel-labor agreements around the country plus a new contract for UPS workers, fresh contracts for more than 45,000 airline pilots may well affect costs around business events. The compensation and benefits for American pilots will be more than $9 billion across the four-year contract.

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Hotel-Labor Shortage: How Bad Is It?

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To meet the demand, hotels are offering a host of incentives for potential hires: nearly 90 percent have increased wages; 71 percent are offering greater flexibility with schedules, and 43 percent have expanded their benefits packages. On the flip side, they are also trying to fill an average of 12 more positions.

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Strikes Begin at Several Meeting Hotels in SoCal

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The reason: an expired labor contract for about 15,000 Local 11 workers across 65 hotels. On the flip side, the hotel-management group has proposed wage hikes of 2.5 dollars an hour in the first 12 months and another 6.25 dollars per hour spread across four years.

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Stubborn Hotel-Labor Shortages: What Should Planners Expect?

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In response, 75 percent of these hotel managers are increasing wages; 64 percent are offering greater flexibility with hours; and 36 percent are expanding benefits. Specifically, housekeeping and food & beverage are the areas where shortfalls are presently the greatest.

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