ORLANDO-Seeking a guaranteed 40-hour week on a new three-year contract, 400 members of Teamsters Local 385 who work at the Swan and Dolphin hotels at Walt Disney World are pinning their hopes tomorrow on a federal mediator who begins hearing their complaints.
If the guaranteed work-week clause isn't part of the contract, the workers have told the hotels' management they will strike. If they do, management expects to fill their positions immediately from 48,000 unemployed Orlando workers including 4,000 from the hospitality industry, consulting sources following the dispute tell GlobeSt.com.
“It's a lose-lose situation for the workers this time around, I'm afraid,” an independent hotel industry consultant tells GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity.
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