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    Advocates Push For Stronger Measures To Protect Hotel Workers From Sexual Harassment

    by Samantha Raphelson Jun 29, 2018 3 minutes
    Unite Here, a labor union that represents workers in the hospitality industry, estimates that the majority of their members who are housekeepers have faced sexual harassment on the job.

    Ely Dar was going about her nightly turn-down service rounds at a Westin hotel in downtown Seattle when she knocked on a hotel room door.

    A male guest invited her in, and as she was preparing the ice bucket on the table, she suddenly felt something on her back.

    "I feel the guest on my back, and then the guest [hugged] me. I'm so scared," Robin Young. "And then I turn

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