Sex and Hospitality workers demonstration on 8th March 2020 in French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has brought New Orleans hospitality and service industries to a chaotic halt, a new coalition of local unions, worker advocates and cultural support organizations is calling for relief support the Ernest N. Morial Exhibition Hall Authority, the convention centers governing body, and New Orleans & Company, the private tourism nonprofit formerly known as the Convention and Visitors Bureau. These rainy day reserves, the coalitions letter says, were amassed through the booming success of the hospitality industry — an industry that only succeeds and exists because of the work of tens of thousands of New Orleanians and southeastern Louisianans.
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