A woman went viral on TikTok sharing how hotel staff ruined her sister’s wedding by going on strike.
Lauren West shared several clips showing the mayhem that ensued when her family arrived at the Doubletree in San Pedro, California, over the weekend to celebrate her sib’s big day.
“It’s my sister’s wedding and the hotel staff are striking next to the venue,” she explains in a TikTok video that quickly gathered over 1.8 million viewers.
The quick clip showed a large group of people holding signs and protesting just a few feet away from the beautifully decorated outdoor dining area.
“We hoped they would be respectful but as it gets closer to the wedding @UNITE HERE! is sending even more strikers to bombard my sister’s wedding, and where is @HiltonByDoubleTree???” she asks in the caption.
In another TikTok video, West showed another angle of the debacle as the upset hotel employees marched in circles just outside the venue.
“Doubletree San Pedro hotel strikers are disrupting my sister’s wedding and Doubletree isn’t doing anything about it,” West wrote in a follow-up TikTok video.
Maria Hernandez, a rep for Unite Here Local 11, told the Sun that the workers “were on strike fighting for a fair contract with livable wages, pension, healthcare and safer workloads.”
However, West insisted Hilton Doubletree “explain what they’re doing to their employees to make them believe it’s acceptable to ruin an innocent person’s wedding.”
“There are ethical ways to strike working conditions without dragging an innocent family into the crossfire. I wouldn’t wish this on any of the @UNITE HERE! families.”
She explained that while the strikers were initially demonstrating in front of the lobby, some moved directly outside the wedding venue right before the ceremony was set to start.
West claimed that her nieces were “terrified … on a day that should be happy and full of love.”
“These strikers are out here making kids cry. This is not what unions are about. And Double Tree San Pedro hasn’t reached out AT ALL to remedy this,” she said. “We’ve been calling repeatedly to make this right. My sister deserves compensation for this distress.”
When a commenter asked, “Have you asked them to move, they are fighting for their rights,” West posted a follow-up vid, explaining the family decided to move the “wedding ceremony indoors because the hotel strikers were trying to disrupt it.”
West notes that she and her family only learned of the strike, then in its first day, one hour before they arrived.
“The wedding was already paid in full. My family can’t afford to sacrifice that money,” she added.
A rep from Doubletree told the Sun that “making sure our guests have a great experience is our top priority, which is why our entire team is always ready to find creative solutions … when plans need to change.”
The hotel that its team responded quickly, “including offering up an alternate on-site location away from the outside area” and providing “complimentary perks and rewards, such as bar service.”
However, West denies these claims.
West and Doubletree did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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