Hospitality Training Academy

The Los Angeles Hospitality Training Academy (HTA) is non-profit, Taft-Hartley, labor-management training fund that partners with UNITE HERE Local 11, educational institutions and community organizations to provide formal training to facilitate entry and advancement along the extensive career ladders within the hospitality and food service industries. HTA uniquely offers workers the tools to succeed in a vital, high growth industry, and provides workplace English, skill upgrades, vocational classes and “bridge training” to move participants into a job and then a career. The hospitality industry employs more than 437,000 persons in metropolitan Los Angeles.