We arrived at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel recently to discover that workers at the hotel and other hotels were on strike. While hotel services were limited by the strike, the behavior of the strikers was horrible.

They were accosting and verbally berating tourists, ruining pre-planned Japanese weddings, shouting into the hotel early in the morning and throughout the day using megaphones and drums, and other boorish behavior. Their beef should be with management, not with the tourists, who are our state’s lifeblood.

When they start attacking tourists (most of whom did not even know there was a strike until they arrived), they lose all sympathy. This does not seem to be a very well-thought-out strike. I suspect lots of folks would be willing to come in and work for the $23-an-hour and full medical benefits the strikers are turning up their noses at.

Steven Kim

Downtown Honolulu

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