Dayana Cruz Estudillo, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/destudillo/ More Than A Magazine, A Movement Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:38:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-ms-logo-32x32.jpg Dayana Cruz Estudillo, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/destudillo/ 32 32 Disrupting Intimidation: How Texas Hotel Workers Are Shaking Up the Industry  https://msmagazine.com/2025/12/27/texas-workers-rights-defense-project-texas-hotel-women-labor-immigrants/ Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://msmagazine.com/?p=390412 The hotel had become a place where women endured hellish conditions and were expected to stay silent.

They decided to break that silence.

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More than 70 percent of hotel housekeepers in the United States are women. Their labor is the backbone of an industry that markets comfort but often denies dignity to those who create it. At Sonesta Select Austin North, the women who knew every hallway, every cart and every stain were treated as if they were disposable. What they experienced is a common issue when those doing the hardest work have the least power.

(This essay is part of a collection presented by Ms. and the Groundswell Fund highlighting the work of Groundswell partners advancing inclusive democracy.)

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