Hotel Housekeepers to Get National Pay Standard

Playa del Carmen, Mexico — A national initiative is in progress to standardize the salaries of hotel housekeepers, aiming to guarantee dignified incomes that cover the basic food basket and help eradicate labor poverty. This was announced by Isaías González Cuevas, the Secretary General of the Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC).

Interviewed in Playa del Carmen, the union leader emphasized that this effort is based on indicators from the Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social (Coneval) and the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI). The objective is to ensure that wages are sufficient to cover both the basic and non-basic food baskets.

“We have been working at a national level to standardize the salaries of housekeepers,” González Cuevas stated. “We want their income to be enough to cover the elementary needs of the household and, with that, to put an end to labor poverty. That is what we are achieving, and it gives me great satisfaction to see this unity, which commits us to continue working harder,” he expressed.

González Cuevas acknowledged the importance of the work performed by housekeepers within the hotel sector, as they represent a considerable percentage of the workforce in each lodging center.

Regarding the employment landscape, he indicated that current unemployment in the country, and particularly in Quintana Roo, remains at low levels, with rates oscillating between 2.4 and 2.5 percent, according to INEGI figures.

Furthermore, the union leader, who assumed the leadership of the CROC in Cancún following the death of Mario Machuca Sánchez, expressed confidence that new international investments arriving in the state will generate more sources of employment and consolidate better labor conditions for workers in the tourism sector.