Anaheim : 3 Arrested for Protest at Disneyland Hotel

Three people were arrested on trespassing charges during a “walk-and-work” demonstration at the Disneyland Hotel on Thursday when a group of seven people began protesting on hotel property.

Ric Morris, the hotel’s director of labor relations, said leaders of the union that represents about 1,200 workers asked management where they could picket on hotel property and were told they could have no more than four people in an area near the West Street tram terminal.

“Today they were, frankly, looking for a media event so they brought seven people,” Morris said, adding that the rest of about 40 demonstrators remained on the sidewalk outside the hotel.

When they refused to leave, the hotel made a citizen’s arrest of three demonstrators and turned them over to Anaheim officers, Morris said. Stephen Beyer, 33, of Long Beach, Alan Kearney, 35, of Huntington Beach and William Granfield, 34, of Costa Mesa were booked at the Anaheim police station and released.

The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union began demonstrating March 1 after refusing to accept a four-year contract offer that called for a 7.1% wage increase per year. The demonstrators were joined on the picket lines Thursday by about 30 striking TWA flight attendants.