Expanding the Fight; Boycotts at Non-Union Hotel Properties

As the hotel industry continues to attack our union in San Francisco and Los Angeles, UNITE HERE has begun a boycott campaign across the United States to show the industry it can no longer expect to attack local unions and avoid a fight throughout the industry. UNITE HERE members work for North American and global hotel companies. For that reason, UNITE HERE members, who work for the same companies involved in the labor disputes, have supported Local 2 & Local 11’s contract struggles by organizing many support actions in their union hotels throughout the year.

However, in addition to activity in our union hotels, the International Union has called for a boycott of numerous non-union hotels across the country to aid the fights in Los Angeles and San Francisco while advancing a program for the union’s growth in the hotel industry at the same time. The boycotted hotels are operated by some of the multi-national chains that are taking a hard line position against fair contracts in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Union members, staff, and allies leaflet guests, have mailed literature to guests, and visit customers in their home offices and ask conventions and their speakers to no longer patronize the boycotted hotels.

The following list of hotels are under boycott. Please do not patronize these hotels.

Atlanta
• Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown
• Westin Peachtree Plaza

Boston
• Hyatt Regency Boston Financial District (fka Swiss
• Hyatt Regency, Cambridge

Chicago
• Four Seasons, Chicago
• Intercontinental Hotel

Los Angeles
• Hyatt Regency Hotel Los Angeles
• Hyatt West Hollywood
• Millennium Biltmore Hotel
• Regent Beverly Wilshire
• Sheraton Universal Hotel
• St. Regis Hotel
• Westin Bonaventure Hotel
• Westin Century Plaza Hotel
• Wilshire Grand Hotel

Los Angeles-Long Beach
• Holiday Inn Torrance
• Hyatt Regency Long Beach

Miami-Hialelah
• Hotel Inter-Continental Miami
• Hyatt Regency Miami

Monterey
• Monterey Bay Travelodge (Fairgrounds)

Oahu Island
• Turtle Bay Resort

Phoenix
• The Phoenician

San Diego
• Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
• The Westin Horton Plaza

San Francisco
• Argent Hotel
• Comfort Suites San Francisco Airport
• Crowne Plaza Union Square
• Fairmont San Francisco
• Four Seasons San Francisco
• Grand Hyatt
• Hilton San Francisco
• Holiday Inn Civic Center
• Holiday Inn Express (FW)
• Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf
• Hyatt Regency San Francisco
• Mark Hopkins InterContinental
• Omni San Francisco Hotel
• Park Hyatt
• Sheraton Palace Hotel
• Westin St. Francis

San Francisco/San Mateo/Marin
• Doubletree Hotel San Francisco Burlingame

Santa Clara
• Westin Santa Clara

Seattle
• Holiday Inn / Crowne Plaza Seattle
• Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers

The International Union is demonstrating to the hotel industry that when they attack UNITE HERE members in any city, there will not be business as usual at their hotel properties. Boycotts get in between the customer and a hotel property. Hotel customers arrive everyday and the industry must provide service to those guests. Boycotts end business as usual.

The boycott campaign has gotten their attention. Security guards are assigned to watch our leafleters, the police are called, and entrances to hotels have been closed. Congressperson John Lewis and civil rights leader, Rev. Joseph Lowery, refused to be keynote speakers at a convention in a Starwood hotel in Atlanta. Senator Diane Feinstein declined an invitation at a Hyatt hotel in Long Beach, California. A gala dinner was canceled in Santa Clara, CA and the Mayor of Seattle wouldn’t attend a conference in a Starwood hotel in his city.

For more information on labor issues at North American hotels, visit http://www.HotelLaborAdvisor.info