A San Francisco hotel is reportedly ending business with a contractor that labor and LGBTQ activists allege is not paying prevailing wages to workers — and subjected people to homophobic language.
The Blue Angels roared over the Embarcadero October 7 as protesters gathered at the site of the Hotel Vitale to make known their distaste for Centric General Contractors, a Brisbane-based company.
Until late October 7, Centric was working on renovations to the Hotel Vitale, which will reopen as 1 Hotel San Francisco when that is completed in January.
According to Rudy Gonzalez, a straight ally who is the secretary-treasurer of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trade Council, members of his group went to Centric's on-site location after