Suhauna Hussain is a business reporter covering California labor and workplace issues for the Los Angeles Times. She joined the paper as a reporting fellow in December 2018. She has previously written for the Tampa Bay Times, the Center for Public Integrity, the East Bay Express and the Chronicle of Higher Education and got her start in journalism at Berkeley’s independent student-run newspaper, the Daily Californian. Hussain was raised in L.A. and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in political economy.
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The Beverly Hilton, Golden Globe Awards host, reached a deal with the hotel workers union. Waldorf Astoria, Hilton Anaheim and Hilton Costa Mesa followed.
Dec. 10, 2023
A group of 27 federal lawmakers is urging the U.S. Department of Labor and FEMA to investigate Los Angeles hotels for potential labor violations.
Dec. 4, 2023
Le Merigot Santa Monica was among some 60 Southern California hotel properties being hit with intermittent walkouts since early July.
Nov. 20, 2023
Los inmigrantes venezolanos y colombianos que viven en Union Rescue Mission en Los Ángeles dicen que están trabajando en hoteles del sur de California donde los trabajadores están en huelga
Oct. 23, 2023
Three striking L.A. Grand employees and one union organizer were injured in a clash with a security guard. The hotel is central to the city’s Inside Safe homeless-housing program.
Oct. 27, 2023
The Laguna Cliffs Marriott in Dana Point became the fourth Southern California property to reach an agreement with Unite Here Local 11, while strikes launched elsewhere.
Oct. 25, 2023
Loews Hollywood is the third of some 60 properties in negotiations with the hotel workers union to real a deal, joining the Westin Bonaventure and the Biltmore Los Angeles.
Oct. 24, 2023
Venezuelan and Colombian migrants living at Union Rescue Mission in L.A. say they are working at Southern California hotels where workers are on strike.
Oct. 23, 2023
The action is part of a wave of protests that have taken place this month across California in response to the Israel-Hamas war.
Oct. 21, 2023
LAPD officers who arrived at the scene discovered a 48-year-old woman dead from gunshot wounds, police said. Nearby, officers discovered a 46-year-old man with ‘apparent self-inflicted wounds.’
Oct. 21, 2023