INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NFL Players Association is threatening to boycott three prominent hotels during the NFL Scouting Combine next year as a show of support to hotel employees.
Unite Here, a Chicago-based hotel workers union, has been trying to organize employees at the Westin Indianapolis, Hyatt Regency Indianapolis and Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites in Indianapolis for the past two years. The NFLPA says workers in Indianapolis are paid less than their peers in other large cities, and believes the hotels are bullying employees into staying out of the union.
Unite Here has spoken out against the alleged practices. A spokeswoman for Hyatt said Unite Here is misleading the public.
NFLPA spokesman Carl Francis declined to comment.
