"Long-time hotel cleaner faces guest fury as rooms reach new levels of filth"

Xochitl Mendez, a housekeeper at an MGM hotel in Las Vegas, has revealed that guests are becoming increasingly angry about the lack of cleanliness in their rooms, often throwing things and shouting at the staff. The debate over hotel-room cleaning has escalated to the point where the Culinary Union, representing 60,000 housekeepers, bartenders, and servers, has voted to authorize a work stoppage. Housekeepers are demanding panic buttons, minimum staffing levels, higher pay, and mandatory daily housekeeping in Vegas hotels. The hotel industry's recovery from the pandemic has raised questions about the need for support, as room rates have skyrocketed and profits have surged.