By Sarah Tully

Disneyland Resort officials are breaking a negotiations stalemate with their hotel union by offering a new proposal three years after the contract expired.

Disney and the 2,100-member union, Unite Here Local 11, have engaged in a fierce battle marred by dozens of union protests, a one-day strike, walkouts and a week-long hunger strike. This is Disney’s first new proposal in more than a year and a half. The last contract expired Jan. 31, 2008.

LOS ANGELES – Workers from the Wilshire Hotel are on strike today, after hotel owner Leo Lee slashed workers’ wages and benefits.

For example, Lee cut wages of workers earning about $10 an hour to the state’s minimum wage of $8 an hour, while others earning about $13.70 were cut to about $10 an hour. He also drastically cut workers’ healthcare benefits.

At the Wilshire Hotel, formerly the Wilshire Plaza, workers have been working under an expired contract since 2006. They have not received a wage raise in more than four years.

By Howard Blume

Employees at an upscale boutique hotel in downtown Los Angeles staged a one-day strike Thursday to protest alleged increased workloads that they said resulted in unfair disciplinary actions.

Management for the Luxe City Center Hotel at 1020 S. Figueroa St., across from the Grammy Museum, declined to comment.

By Richard Lee

The president of Brown University, located in Providence, R.I., is considering an advisory committee's recommendation that it stop investing in HEI Hotels & Resorts as the Norwalk-based hospitality investment firm faces scrutiny over its labor practices.