Inter Miami CF and Lionel Messi were originally slated to check in at the Fairmont Miramar on Friday afternoon for a game Sunday against LAFC.
, would have had to cross another union’s picket line to stay at the Fairmont.
The soccer players’ union released a statement Friday afternoon applauding the decision by Inter Miami to change hotels. “The MLSPA is proud to stand with the striking workers at the Fairmont Miramar and other LA area hotels,” the association said iInter Miami representatives Molly Dreska and Rafael Cabrera and Fairmont Miramar Director of Human Resources Ashley Eberhard did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Trying to see Lionel Messi and Inter Miami take on LAFC this weekend? A ticket could set you back at least $500.
“The housekeepers, cooks, bellmen and servers of the Fairmont Miramar say thank you to the great Lionel Messi and his teammates for agreeing to move from the hotel and stand with the striking workers,” the union said in a statement Friday afternoon.The previous day, Unite Here Local 11 had publicly called for Messi and his teammates “to stand in solidarity with us and stay out of the Fairmont Miramar.
“Just two weeks ago, workers at the Fairmont Miramar called for a boycott of their hotel after hotel security officers were videoed violently attacking their own employees while they attempted to establish a picket line,”Picket lines at the Santa Monica hotel have been the site of violent altercations in which workers were injured.
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