Anaheim : Disneyland Hotel Staff Remain On the Job

Despite rejection Friday of a “final” management offer by union negotiators and the threat of a strike, 1,200 maids, cooks, bus boys, bartenders, waiters and other workers were on the job at the Disneyland Hotel Saturday.

Their leaders called for a boycott against the hotel, which is not part of the nearby amusement park, and said a strike still may be in store.

“We think we can hurt the company’s business this way . . .,” Bill Granfield of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union said Saturday. “We’re not eager for a strike, we’re eager for a good contract.”

A vote by union membership on the contract proposal is scheduled for Friday.

Besides wage increases, the union is demanding withdrawal of a hotel policy that once employees who are illegal aliens gain residency status--and therefore change their Social Security number--they must forfeit their job and vacation seniority.