USA: Pacific Beach Hotel workers have a right to a union

Act NOW!
USA: Pacific Beach Hotel workers have a right to a union

In the Hawaii tourism industry, where employees must come to work every day with a smile on their faces, and share their hospitality and aloha with visitors and guests, the Pacific Beach Hotel is deliberately and repeatedly violating its workers' rights - proving that hotel management does not understand the meaning of the word "aloha." It has been over six years since workers first started to organize; since then, they've suffered management lies, intimidation, threats, and bribes to prevent them from joining the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). Management has already been found to have committed serious violations of federal law. Over 30 of the strongest union supporters lost their jobs as part of management's fear campaign. Management refuses to negotiate in good faith with the ILWU. The hotel has been charged with over two dozen additional counts of illegal treatment of its workers. A community boycott of the hotel was called in December 2007, which has gained the support of Hawaii leaders, lawmakers, educators and unions, the national AFL-CIO, and several Japanese labor organizations, including Zenkowan (All Japan Dockworkers union), RENGO, Service RENGO, IUF-JCC, and ITF. Despite public support for the workers, Pacific Beach Hotel owner HTH Corporation refuses to acknowlege its responsibility to bargain in good faith and to obey US labor law.

This campaign is now closed.

2674 supporters