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# Sympathy for the housekeeper
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/sympathy-for-the-housekeeper/
- Published: 2002-09-20T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:44:39.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

A couple of weeks ago, hotel housekeepers demanded a higher wage, more breaks, a longer lunch, less hotel rooms to clean and family health insurance, among other things.

They said many of their co-workers were let go last year and now the ones that have been spared their jobs are being asked to work harder for the same amount of money.

So last week, Q-Line asked: “Is it the hotel ownership’s responsibility to give their workers more money or is more work for the same amount of money just part of keeping your job given the current economic climate?”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 20, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/092002.pdf?ref=smdp.com)