It’s happening again. The NBCUniversal campus, already a flashpoint for Hollywood’s ongoing labor unrest, as the writers and actors guilds have alleged picket-busting, is now the site of a new strike controversy. This time, Unite Here Local 11, the Southern California hospitality union that’s also currently staging walkouts, is claiming that the Sheraton Universal is retaliating against its workers for protesting.
According to an unfair labor practices charge filed Aug. 18 with the National Labor Relations Board, the organization contends that the hotel has issued disciplinary notices against 16 employees, including multiple suspensions, in retribution for picketing outside of the property, which is a short stroll past the primary NBCUniversal gate, where Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA members have themselves been massing and marching.
Unite Here says that Sheraton Universal management has unlawfully conducted surveillance on employees, has made threats against them to dissuade them from participating in the protests and...
According to an unfair labor practices charge filed Aug. 18 with the National Labor Relations Board, the organization contends that the hotel has issued disciplinary notices against 16 employees, including multiple suspensions, in retribution for picketing outside of the property, which is a short stroll past the primary NBCUniversal gate, where Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA members have themselves been massing and marching.
Unite Here says that Sheraton Universal management has unlawfully conducted surveillance on employees, has made threats against them to dissuade them from participating in the protests and...
- 8/21/2023
- by Gary Baum
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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