four dozen employees of the iconic Ilikai hotel won their jobs back Friday when their labor union and the property’s new owner inked a surprise deal. ...The Honolulu Star-Bulletin has more on this story here.
The pact will lead to the hotel’s reopening sometime soon--though neither the local UNITE HERE union nor the Waikiki hotel’s owner, New York City-based iStar Financial Inc., are saying when.
But that didn’t matter to the Ilikai’s employees who jammed into a union hall Friday to hug, eat cake and crack wide smiles less than 24 hours after they worked what they thought was their last day at the hotel.
The Ilikai these days is just one of a number of tall hotels in Waikiki, Oahu’s most popular tourist locale. More recently, the 800-room hotel fell onto hard times when then-owner Brian Anderson sold off pieces as time shares and eventually forced the property into foreclosure.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Steve McGarrett Is Smiling
It’s time to follow up on a post from earlier this week, which said that the Y-shaped, 45-year-old Ilikai hotel on Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach--made widely familiar by its appearance in the main title sequence of Hawaii Five-O--was destined to close. Apparently the landmark has won a reprieve. As the Associated Press reports,
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