Striking Workers at Los Angeles Hotel, Now a Homeless Shelter, Urge City to Help

Union workers tell city councilors of threats and unsafe conditions: ‘There’s so much stuff that no one sees.’

Striking hotel workers demonstrate at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 14, 2024. Courtesy of Unite Here Local 11

Dozens of striking hospitality workers gathered Feb. 14 at City Hall to implore officials to intervene in what they describe as untenable working conditions at LA Grand Hotel.

Since 2021, the 500-room hotel has been used as an interim homeless shelter, first under the county’s pandemic-era Project Room Key, then under Inside Safe, Mayor Karen Bass’ signature homelessness initiative.