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More than 100 Embassy Suites employees will vote whether to authorize a strike. About 750,000 visitors are expected in the city for the 2026 FIFA World Cup games.
SEATTLE — More than 100 hotel workers in Seattle are threatening to go on strike ahead of the FIFA World Cup, when roughly 750,000 visitors are expected to crowd the city for the games.
About 113 union workers at Embassy Suites, a busy hotel near Seattle's Lumen Field, where six World Cup games will be played, informed management that they will vote whether to authorize a strike this Friday.
"This is when everyone is at the hotel. This is when it hurts the most to have a strike," Hayden Eyerly, a front desk employee, told Seattle-area TV station KING 5.
The contract between the Embassy ...
