Hotel industry takes licensing fight to City Hall
Rally draws both sides — union members and subcontractors
The battle over a hotel licensing bill rages on.
Hundreds of hotel workers rallied outside City Hall today — both those in favor and against City Council member Julie Menin’s bill that would require hotel operators to obtain licenses and, in many cases, change the way they operate.
Menin has hailed the bill as a way to crack down on crime in hotels. But instead it has pitted union members against subcontractors as the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council pushes the bill and the hotel industry assails it as a back-door attempt at unionization.