Anaheim : Disneyland Hotel Staff Remain On the Job
Despite rejection Friday of a “final” management offer by union negotiators and the threat of a strike, 1,200 maids, cooks, bus boys, bartenders, waiters and other workers were on the job at the Disneyland Hotel Saturday.
Their leaders called for a boycott against the hotel, which is not part of the nearby amusement park, and said a strike still may be in store.
“We think we can hurt the company’s business this way . . .,” Bill Granfield of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union said Saturday. “We’re not eager for a strike, we’re eager for a good contract.”
A vote by union membership on the contract proposal is scheduled for Friday.
Besides wage increases, the union is demanding withdrawal of a hotel policy that once employees who are illegal aliens gain residency status--and therefore change their Social Security number--they must forfeit their job and vacation seniority.
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