Hotel ordered to reinstate workers

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Honolulu Advertiser


By Curtis Lum

A federal judge has ordered the owner and manager of the Pacific Beach Hotel to recognize employee rights to be represented by a union, bargain in good faith, and reinstate five laid-off workers who had been active in union activities.

U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright yesterday granted a motion for injunctive relief filed by the National Labor Relations Board against HTH Corp., which owns and operates the 837-room Pacific Beach Hotel in Waikīkī. On March 8, Seabright issued a temporary order in favor of the NLRB and yesterday denied an attempt by the hotel to dismiss the order.

The NLRB sought the injunction following a ruling made last September by a federal administrative judge who said the hotel violated employees' rights. Judge James Kennedy ruled in favor of 15 of 16 complaints of unfair labor practices filed by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 against the hotel.

HTH Corp. appealed Kennedy's decision with the NLRB in Washington which is still pending. In the interim, the Local 142 and NLRB sought to force HTH to follow Kennedy's order and filed for the injunction.

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President Obama's home state where one in four workers belongs to a union.

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