Protesters Charge Hotel With Intimidating Workers
More than 200 residents and pro-union workers marched from the Miramar Sheraton Hotel to City Hall on Tuesday to distribute a report charging the hotel’s management with intimidating workers before a decertification election last year.
Workers narrowly voted to oust Local 814 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union as their bargaining representative last October.
Carrying signs shaped like coffee pots and vacuum cleaners, demonstrators drew the attention of patrons and business owners on the Third Street Promenade as they moved down the pedestrian mall toward City Hall on Tuesday.
Marchers distributed copies to onlookers and City Council members of a report prepared by a panel that heard testimony from Miramar workers last December.
The panel, which included community and religious leaders, City Council members and Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa (D-Los Angeles) concluded in the report that, based on the evidence presented to them, hotel management created a hostile work environment for pro-union workers.
Officials from the hotel have denied the charges.
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