Searching for a way to end two years of union organizing and picketing, the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis filed a petition Thursday for a government-supervised election to determine whether workers want a union, according to a report in the Indianapolis Star.
The election would be run by the National Labor Relations Board to determine whether the 140 workers at the Downtown hotel want to be represented by UniteHere, a national organization for hospitality workers.
Hyatt Regency managers said they and their employees are weary of picketing, boycotts, threatening phone calls to customers and other tactics that feel like intimidation and harassment by the union.
However, UniteHere officials say intimidation tactics have been used by hotel managers to try to discourage workers from organizing in pursuit of collective bargaining.
