BajaNomad

What ever happened with Los Arcos in La Paz?

Hook - 7-12-2009 at 09:24 PM

I vaguely remember a strike shutting the hotel down and there was talk that it would be a permanent closure.

What ever happened? Did Bermejo also close?

arrowhead - 7-12-2009 at 10:12 PM

Last November, the Hotel union workers went on strike at Los Arcos. After several months of fruitless negotiations between the owners and the union, the owners -- the Coppolas -- decided to just call the union's bluff and close the hotel down. All the employees have been terminated and paid their liquidating wages. The slow economy was also a deciding factor, plus the hotel was old and needed updating.

Unions are very strong in Mexico, but this time they screwed the pooch by pulling that stunt in a poor economy.