The Region : Staff Still on Job at Disneyland Hotel

Despite rejection of a “final” management contract offer by union negotiators and the threat of a strike, 1,200 maids, cooks, busboys, bartenders, waiters and other workers were on the job at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. Their leaders called for a boycott against the hotel, which is not part of the nearby amusement park, and said a strike still may be in store. “We think we can hurt the company’s business this way . . .,” said Bill Granfield of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union. “We’re not eager for a strike, we’re eager for a good contract,” he said. A vote by union membership on the contract proposal is scheduled for Friday. Besides wage increases, the union is demanding withdrawal of a hotel policy that once employees who are illegal aliens gain resident status--and therefore change their Social Security numbers--they must forfeit their job and vacation seniority.