Workers at fourteen hotels in Washington DC are looking to the Presidential Inauguration to reignite stalled contract negotiations.

[Cooper1] "The workers have been working without a contract for more than three months."

Amanda Cooper is the press secretary for UNITE-HERE representing 3,800 hotel workers in Washington DC.

[Cooper2] "The guest experience is completely dependent on the work of our members and the administration wants to show their guests a good time, however it's a challenge for our members to get excited about serving the guests when management has shown them so little respect in the form of a sub-standard contract."

Cooper says the hotels' offer lacks what she terms respect and dignity issues, like having a spanish translator present when workers are being disciplined or providing employees with proper safety equipment. UNITE-HERE is ready to disrupt the inauguration if health care and pension issues aren't resolved by late January.

[Cooper3] "The action at this point is undetermined but it could be anything that you would usually consider a tactic of a labor struggle like this. Up to and including a strike and new tactics that we haven't seen under these kinds of circumstances."

Any job action could add even more chaos to a presidential inauguration set to include the tightest security measures ever.