An early-September convention in Los Angeles might see just a fraction of its 6,000 registered attendees after pressure from the hotel workers’ union failed to persuade the group to cancel the event.
As with recent hotel-labor agreements around the country plus a new contract for UPS workers, fresh contracts for more than 45,000 airline pilots may well affect costs around business events.
After the pandemic and in the remote-work environment, it’s not enough to simply plan a meeting and have people show up. Many employees’ social skills have suffered in recent years—something that planners can proactively address.
Hyatt now faces a class-action suit alleging misleading pricing, and federal legislation has been proposed to drive hotel-cost transparency industry-wide.
Representing thousands of hotel workers in Southern California, Unite Here Local 11 calls for a boycott of the entire city by meetings and events. A few groups had already moved upcoming meetings out of hotels without a new union contract.
