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In part of a growing national trend towards religious organization involvement in labor struggles, an interfaith group in Los Angeles has joined 240 members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 814 in their fight with a Los Angeles Airport hotel. When an investment firm purchased the former Wyndham Hotel in order to start a Radisson Hotel franchise, they fired all the employees and have refused to rehire the vast majority of the unionized workers---some of whom have worked at the hotel for thirty years. Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), the religious group involved, was formed during the Los Angeles labor movement?s living wage campaign of the mid-1990s, and is one of sixty organizations in the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice.