A night at the blacklisted Beverly Hills Hotel

A night at the blacklisted Beverly Hills Hotel | New York Post:
What’s gone unnoticed in most coverage is the shadow protest underneath this one: 
The Beverly Hills Hotel and its sister, the Hotel Bel-Air, are among the few non-union ones left in LA. 
This does not sit well with UNITE HERE Local 11, the city’s hospitality union, which has been battling to unionize The Beverly Hills Hotel since the ’90s.
Last year, the organization tried to gain traction by aligning the ­hotel with Brunei’s appalling rec­ord on LGBT rights.
They got no press.
“Stories need a hook,” Local 11 spokeswoman Leigh Shelton told BuzzFeed.
“I just don’t think it had a hook at the time.”
.....It’s the working men and women of the hotel, the bartenders, chambermaids, waiters and waitresses, who are suffering — and with unemployment in California at 8 percent, their anxiety is only mounting.
“This place may be non-union, but everyone here is very happy,” a staffer told me.
“The health ­insurance is excellent. The hotel is paying comp wages out of its own budget.
This is the hotel ­everyone wants to work at — you feel its energy.
It’s special.”