| Think twice before booking at the Hilton LAX! Your event will be caught in the middle of a contentious labor dispute. Pickets, marches and civil disobedience actions are getting more intense and will continue until the hotel decides to deal with the situation. Take a look at a recent video of events at the hotel. |
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| Twenty-seven people get arrested in front of the Hilton LAX on June 29 as 400 supporters watch from the sidewalk. Traffic was blocked for more than an hour. Click here to see the photos. |
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LAX Hilton workers file suit December 17, 2008
The complaint, which seeks class-action status, says workloads are such that employees are unable to take required rest breaks and that they are working unpaid overtime. | Judge Sides with Union in Battle over Hilton LAX October 25, 2008
An administrative judge says the management wrongfully suspended 77 workers and pushed and threatened others for engaging in protected activities. | Banquet in the streets' outside Hilton LAX marks second anniversary of hotel boycott October 9, 2008
Marking the two-year anniversary of a call to boycott the Hilton Los Angeles Airport, hundreds of hotel workers,former clients, community leaders and elected officials held a "banquet in the streets" October 2nd outside the hotel on Century Boulevard. | LAX Hotels Ordered to Pay a "Living Wage" July 16, 2008
The LAX Hilton lost its bid for an injunction to stop the city from enacting an ordinance requiring airport-area hotels to pay workers a "living wage". | Hilton Takes Last Stand in War on "Living Wage" July 7, 2008
The owners of the Hilton LAX continued to fight the "Living Wage" Ordinance despite the decision of the other airport-area hotels to adhere to the ordinance. | Hilton LAX cited for worker health violations November 15, 2007
A state agency, responding to a complaint by housekeepers, says the hotel has run afoul of repetitive-motion rules. | 'It's too hard, too hard' November 2, 2007
LMU students join hurting hotel workers in 'Day of the Dead Tired' protest march. | Clergy Led 'Pilgrimage for Worker Justice' June 9, 2006
Pilgrimage on Century Boulevard highlights alleged abuses at LA airport hotels | LAX Hilton Hotel workers return from a not-so-needed break. May 19, 2006
If the idea of a one-week, forced vacation sounds like a great Mother's Day gift, just ask the 75 LAX Hilton Hotel employees who were barred from work after participating in a Mother's Day work stoppage last week to protest what they say are unsafe and unfair working conditions. As of Thursday, May 25 many of the workers were reinstated and allowed back to work; however, many have said the unpaid suspension will drastically affect their already low incomes. | Workers picket LAX Hilton hotel May 15, 2006
Wearing red shirts emblazoned with UNITE HERE! the suspended workers waved signs accusing the hotel of unfair labor practices. | Hotel Suspends Workers After They Complain May 13, 2006
The move comes during a heated campaign to raise wages and organize employees. Unite Here files a claim against the Hilton at LAX. |
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