Trouble is Brewing at the Hotel Frank
About a month ago, we stopped into two of the former Personality Hotels in San Francisco, which had been taken over by Provenance Hotels in mid-May.
As far as we could see, things seemed to be A-OK. Free WiFi was still in place and Provenance was working hard to get the renovations back on track at both the Hotel Vertigo and the Hotel Frank. Yet things were not as copacetic as we thought.
Provenance has been tussling with employees of the three hotels (including Hotel Metropolis) over increased workloads and slashed employee benefits. A longtime hotel bellman at Hotel Frank, who's also Unite-Here Local 2 union activist, was fired last week after a "boisterous picket line" convened in front of the hotel to protest these changes.
The bellman, Marc Norton, told the SF Bay Guardian that the firing has only turned him into a full-time organizer for workers' rights.
That includes holding another picket line outside Hotel Frank today at 4:15pm. Making things uncomfortable for Provenance (and hotel guests) is that the hotel is pretty booked this week and through the weekend as Fleet Week comes into town.
Hopefully, Provenance and the hotel employees can come to an agreement soon. In the meantime, rates for next week when things die down start at $209 a night.
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