Workers at the Fidelity-owned Seaport Hotel in Boston have called for a boycott. For over a year, Fidelity has challenged Seaport Hotel banquet workers’ unionization attempts. Here’s a timeline:

• December 2022, Seaport Hotel cuts a majority of full-time Banquets and Convention Services employees from full-time status, making them ineligible to receive benefits.
• July 2023, Seaport Hotel workers filed for a union election. Fidelity filed objections which were subsequently overruled by the Labor Board’s Regional Director, but resulted in months of delays.
• January 2024, Seaport Hotel workers win a vote for union representation. Fidelity refuses to recognize the results of the election and refuses to bargain a contract.
• February 2024, Seaport Hotel retaliates against unionized workers by withholding raises and benefit improvements, and by eliminating already planned for banquet event space in a renovated part of the hotel.
• July 2024, one year after filing for their election, Seaport Hotel workers launch boycott of their hotel.
• July 2024, the General Counsel’s Office of the National Labor Relations Board issued an Unfair Labor Practice complaint against the Seaport Hotel for Refusal to Bargain.
• November 2024, the National Labor Relations Board issued a further complaint against the Seaport Hotel for “interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed” under federal labor law.
• December 2024, the National Labor Relations Board ordered Seaport Hotel to recognize the union and begin bargaining in good faith. The Seaport Hotel appealed this decision on December 19^th, 2024.

Seaport Hotel workers are asking for customers to not eat, meet, or sleep at the Seaport Hotel until the Hotel accepts the results of the election and agrees to a union contract that provides the dignity and respect they deserve.