About 325 union members and supporters protested in the Disneyland area about hotel employees' ongoing contract dispute with Disney.

About 2,100 Disney hotel employees have worked without a contract for about two and a half years -- a time period marked by dozens of protests, a one-day strike, walkouts, a week-long hunger strike and arrests. On Monday, union members from other Disney-area venues joined the protest as a way to send a message to their employers to avoid such turmoil during contract negotiations.

By Patrick J. McDonnell

The Hilton Los Angeles Airport hired scores of workers through a subcontractor in an illegal scheme to circumvent a city law mandating that airport-area hotel employees receive a "living wage," according to a lawsuit announced Wednesday.

The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of some 150 current and former hotel workers allegedly cheated out of legal wages, seeks back pay for affected employees and a court injunction mandating that Hilton comply with the city living wage laws in the airport area. 

By Barbara De Lollis

Disney hotel workers in California walked off their jobs Friday, the day that Disney opened its multi-million dollar World of Color attraction.

Disney visitors faced a picket line along the street that leads into the theme park, the Associated Press reports. Union representatives say that Disney hotel guests faced other disruptions, since the hotels lacked housekeepers, bellman and other staff.

Just six months after becoming a publicly traded company, Hyatt Hotels (NYSE: H) is already facing sharp criticism across North America.  Today, hotel workers held a protest outside the Hyatt Andaz West Hollywood to coincide with Hyatt’s first annual shareholders meeting in Chicago.  And in demonstrations across the country, workers and community leaders expressed outrage at how the company is trying to make the recession permanent for workers despite significantly improving industry conditions and Hyatt's rising share values.