Pasadena Hotel Workers to Strike Hours Before Rose Parade

PASADENA, Calif.—Cooks, room attendants, and other workers at the Hilton Pasadena and Hyatt Place Pasadena hotels will walk off the job at dawn on New Year’s Eve, just as Pasadena gets ready to host the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game, union officials said Dec. 27. Workers across Los Angeles hotels have been engaged in ongoing labor disputes with employers since July, in what the Unite Here Local 11 union calls the largest hotel worker strike in modern history. The workers’ primary goals include wage increases to keep pace with the soaring cost of housing in Los Angeles, quality and affordable health insurance, and humane workloads, according to Unite Here Local 11, which staged walkouts at hotels across Southern California and Arizona over the summer....