Striking Southern California hotel workers demanding greater pay are increasingly facing violence on the picket line.
Now Unite Here Local 11, the union representing the workers, are filing unfair labor practice charges against a group which represents over 40 hotels in Los Angeles in Orange County alleging a pattern of violence against striking workers on at least three work sites, according to a Monday press release.
Ada Briceño, co-president of the union, said that they filed the charges to the National Labor Relations Board because workers have a right to picket.
“It’s just ridiculous, we’re seeing this wave of violence come out that our members are experiencing,” she said in a Monday phone interview. “It’s wrong for the employers to want to break our strike.”
Briceño said even in the face of violence workers are unwavering in their commitment to get a better contract.
“We’re not letting up until we win,” she said.
Briceño pointed to workers at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Hotel in Dana Point allegedly being assaulted, threatened and having their property destroyed and to the hotel’s celebrity chef John Tesar breaking a worker’s drum and insulting them.
According to the filing, the violence at Laguna Cliff took place in July.
Tesar and Hotel representatives have yet to respond to Tuesday requests for comment.
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