SAN FRANCISCO
The San Francisco Regional Office of the National Labor Relations Board has
cited leaders of UniteHere Local 2, which represents Hyatt hotel associates in
San Francisco, for bargaining in bad faith during contract negotiations with the
hotels.
For nearly three years Hyatt has been negotiating with UniteHere to secure
new contracts for its associates at Hyatt Regency San Francisco and Grand Hyatt
San Francisco. In March, the company filed an unfair labor practices charge with
the NLRB on behalf of the two San Francisco-area Hyatt hotels.
In response to Hyatt’s charge, the NLRB Regional Director found that local
UniteHere leaders were bargaining in bad faith by refusing to schedule more
frequent negotiating sessions and arriving late and leaving early during
scheduled sessions.
The NLRB’s decision in San Francisco comes only weeks after the Board’s
Regional Director in Chicago cited UniteHere’s local leadership for similarly bargaining in
bad faith in that city and making illegal contract demands during negotiations
with Hyatt. Local 2 leaders also were cited by the NLRB in early 2010 for
violations of collective bargaining by “unilaterally changing employment terms”
without notifying Hyatt.
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