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Labor/Employment

Jan. 4, 2011

Tough Hotel Labor Talks Expected in 2011

With a wave of expired contracts between unionized hospitality workers and hotels, the new year is expected to be a busy one for lawyers on both sides as labor negotiations kick into high gear.


By Catherine Ho


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - For 48 hours last Labor Day weekend, hundreds of housekeepers, bartenders and servers marched outside the Hyatt hotels in West Hollywood and Century City - the second time in two months the hospitality workers' union in Los Angeles took to picket lines to protest wages and benefits.


Part of an apparent lay-and-wait strategy that could improve the union's leverage by coordinating ...

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