Monday, June 13, 2011

New York Maids Speak Out

The Strauss-Kahn rape allegation has shed some light on the working conditions of NY City maids.

Guardian UK: New York maids demand to be heard as they dish the dirt on hotel life
There are more than 10,000 hotel maids – or room attendants as they prefer to be called – in New York City.


...verbal abuse was routine, along with male guests exposing themselves.


...it is the sexual propositioning that the maids find most intolerable.

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Who surprised? All lower class workers are abused in this society. Women probably the most.

Jim Sande said...

This article was in a English publication. Enough said...