Monday, October 31, 2011

Wider Pacific Beach boycott weighed - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The union and its supporters, the and the , for monthss have advocated a boycott ofthe hotel's rooms and restaurants. The ILWU has been involved in contentious contract negotiations with hotel owner sincwe it organizedthe hotel's 450 workers in 2004. The ILWU said more than half of thosee workersare Filipino-American. The battle has gotten increasingl contentious since August whenHTH Corp. announced it wouls take back management of the hotelon Dec. 1 withoug promising to rehire all workers, who have had to reapply for their jobs. Outrigger Enterprises Group-affiliat PBH Management LLC had been managingthe 837-roomn hotel since Jan. 1.
Robert "Mick" regional vice president of operations for HTH was not immediately availablefor comment. HTH also owns the Pagoda Hotelin

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