Justices Reject Hotel’s Case on Nixing Rehire of Union Workers

The US Supreme Court refused to consider a Los Angeles hotel’s challenge to a ruling that it violated federal labor law by refusing to rehire more than 150 unionized workers after a two-year closure while its facility was renovated.

The justices Monday let stand a National Labor Relations Board decision from 2021 that Kava Holdings LLC, which does business as Hotel Bel-Air, used the renovation project to unlawfully eject the Unite Here affiliate that represented its workers. A federal appeals court upheld the NLRB’s ruling last year.

Kava argued that the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit endorsed ...