The hotel situation is different. Unite Here, the common union for them, will bring in outside agitators to picket because hotels really don't have a lot of personnel in the first place (many roles are considered management). They did this in the Southern California negotiations last year and earlier this year. These people are many times the same "protestors for hire" that you can hire online and are willing to act with violence hoping to provoke a response that goes viral. There was an incident at a beachfront hotel in LA County where these paid protesters were blowing air horns outside hotel windows at 6am Sunday, and they were banging drums and cymbols outside a wedding. The situation turned violent of course with those hired thugs harassing paid guests who obviously had set their plans in motion months or years prior and could not lose tens of thousands of dollars canceling over this strike. There was a video of angry wedding guests shoving the hired thugs who invaded their ceremony with a construction fence trying to throw them into the harbor.storewanderer wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2024, 10:22 pm I recall staying at a hotel sometime in the past that was under a similar type of "strike." The employees were literally working their shifts then going out front in uniforms holding strike signs encouraging customers to not stay there because they were working under an expired agreement.
Obviously in the case of a hotel you have an advance reservation in most cases and cannot just "cancel the day of arrival" without a one night penalty so I question how effective it was for them.
Meanwhile the real workers are inside, getting abused and reamed by rightfully pissed off customers when in fact not one of the noise makers, door blockers, parking lot blockers, and other abusive people actually works for the hotel. The union puts their members into a miserable untenable position instead of protecting them from one.
I have zero sympathy for these unions that hire non union agitators and thugs to create dangerous situations as part of their negotiations. These are the type of unions that stood aside as the employees were put into the bad situation of no more daily housekeeping and slashed hours, and now they are trying to push the boulder back up the hill when they should have held a proper strike and shut the doors of these properties years ago. They really don't give a damn about working conditions, which are the real issue right now, they only are out for wage increases that will turn into higher dues. They are the unions that give unions a bad name.
