Demand an end to retaliation against striking workers.

Investigate whether these migrants brought in as replacement workers during strikes at the Le Meridien Delfina have received the applicable minimum wages per the city’s local ordinance; whether they have been provided personal security devices, and proper training on the use of such devices, in addition to training on other rights intended to protect workers from threatening conduct as required by the hotel worker protection ordinance.

These examples brought forth by the workers also highlight a fundamental problem of labor enforcement in the hospitality industry: how workers or enforcement agencies can regulate the many shadowy staffing agencies that pay the checks of employees, a problem that persists even at wealthy large corporations with professional human resources departments. To this end, we also urge the city to gather information about each staffing agency utilized by the hotels named in this letter, and to collect basic information about each company, the firms with which they work, and the employees employed by each firm.