Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Bay Area hotel union agrees to pay back benefit funds

Hotel workers enmeshed in an 18-month-long labor standoff agreed to stop diverting money from a union benefit fund to subsidize their longstanding boycott campaign against five of The City’s most prominent hotel chains, a hotel spokesman said Tuesday.

After the National Labor Relations Board brought a legal case against Unite Here Local 2, which represents 12,000 hotel employees in San Francisco and San Mateo counties, the union agreed to reverse its actions and restore the monies to the proper funds with interest, hotel spokesman Pete Hillan said in a written statement.

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