A City Council hearing is set for Tuesday on a disastrous bill to force the hotel industry to use more union labor, severely limit outside contracting and obtain new licenses to operate every year.
The Plaza Hotel, a landmarked 20-story luxury hotel and condominium apartment building in Midtown Manhattan, with a white and gold flag on a pole.City lawmakers are moving once again to sell out Gotham, this time to benefit the hotel unions.It imposes a raft of other requirements, too — dictating, for instance, the number of security guards, in an attempt to micromanage the hotels based on what benefits their unions.
Yearly license renewals will be held hostage over minor issues, such as insufficient WiFi, making it impossible for some hotels to operate with any certainty about their costs and future prospects. It’s perfect grist for quiet blackmail: Give me what I want, or I’ll gum up your relicensing.Combine that with the higher rates hotels would need to charge to meet the new mandates, plus a growing shortage of rooms, and you can be sure visitors will be avoiding New York like the plague.
Quit bleeding every corner of the private sector that looks like it can’t fight back, or the city will wind up with no private sector at all.Apparent drag 'parody of Last Supper' at Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony sparks controversy
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