Labor Dispute at Disneyland Hotel Continues

A meeting between management of the Disneyland Hotel and the union representing 1,200 hotel employees failed to resolve a 7 1/2-month-old contract dispute, union and management sources said Friday.

Representatives on both sides said that another meeting between the union local’s president, David Shultz, and the hotel’s chief negotiator, Ric Morris, will take place on Tuesday, if necessary.

“Nothing was accomplished,” said Steven A. Beyer, an administrative assistant of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 681. “There’s really nothing else I can say right now. Nothing was resolved, and we’re meeting again on Tuesday.”

‘Amicable’ Discussions

Morris described the discussions as “very amicable.”

“Certainly both sides listened carefully, and I think both sides had a open mind,” he said.

On the possibility of a Tuesday meeting, he said: “We have an open date if there’s something that needs to be discussed.”

The employees--mostly maids, laundry attendants, cooks, busboys, bartenders, waiters and bellmen--have been working without a contract since Feb. 28.

Friday’s meeting focused on a refurbished contract “package,” a modification of the hotel’s “last, best and final offer” that the employees are working under in the absence of a contract, said Morris, assistant vice president of labor relations for the hotel.

Morris, saying that he didn’t want to “negotiate through the press,” was vague on the details of the contract package, but added that “it’s a more positive way of looking at previous discussions.”