By Doug Cunningham

For four years a handful of workers with the help of UNITE-HERE have fought to organize a union at the Monterey Travel Lodge in California. They’re rallying today to protest the continuing anti-union actions of the lodge’s owner. UNITE-HERE 43’s Mark Weller:

[Weller]: “We need to lift these hospitality jobs into the middle class, not drag them into poverty. And so, this is a three-year boycott, it's a four-year fight, and it's thirteen workers. But these thirteen workers are as important as any others in the United States, so we're going to continue to fight for them."

Weller says that a boycott of the Monterey Travel Lodge will continue until the owner signs a fair contract with the workers.