Anchorage Hilton Illegally Sued Union, Labor Board Judge Rules

Anchorage Hilton violated federal labor law by suing a union for its efforts to organize a consumer boycott of the hotel, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

The hotel’s lawsuit against a Unite Here affiliate was objectively baseless and intended to retaliate against the union for seeking to persuade customers from using the hotel until it agreed to a fair collective bargaining agreement, Administrative Law Judge Gerald Etchingham held Wednesday.

Anchorage Hilton “merely got tired of the Union’s completely lawful consumer boycott and sought to retaliate by depleting the Union’s financial resources through extended litigation and while the Union ...