Spotlight: L.A. Hotel Workers’ Message Will Travel to Asia

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney travels to Asia this weekend for meetings with labor leaders in Hong Kong and Japan. One of the main goals is to pressure the Japanese firms that own and manage the downtown Los Angeles New Otani Hotel & Garden, which has resisted a union-organizing drive by Local 11 of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union. Sweeney will also participate in an annual bilateral meeting with leaders of Japan’s labor federation.