Economic protesters from the Occupy L.A. campsite at Los Angeles City Hall are on their way to join dozens of union supporters demonstrating in front of the newly refurbished Hotel Bel-Air, organizer Mario Brito said Friday afternoon.
The swanky spa and hotel is reopening after a two-year renovation with only about a dozen of its former union workers on the staff of 275, dealing a blow to the UNITE Local 11 hotel workers union and its members. UNITE contends the hotel used the renovation as a pretext to destroy union jobs.
Public relations representatives and executives of the hotel did not return calls for comment.
"We're lending support to the struggle against a company so greedy they want to hire the lowest denominator," Brito said by cellphone, over the whoops and chanting of protesters aboard the union-supplied bus.
Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, in a phone call from the scene, said he supported the workers' protest.
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