Union workers who have battled dozens of Southern California hotels for new contracts are squaring off with an unlikely holdout: an airport hotel owned by the pension fund of a fellow union.

Unite Here Local 11, which represents housekeepers and other hotel workers, has been waging intermittent strikes across Los Angeles to pressure hotel operators into new collective bargaining agreements. The union says it has reached deals with 34 of roughly 70 properties after seven months of walkouts.

One of the hotels where workers are still picketing is the Hyatt Regency LAX , which is owned by the Southwest Carpenters Pension Trust, a pension fund for an affiliate of the carpenters union. The ongoing contract dispute means a hotel with union ties has found itself on a unions boycott list .

Kurt Petersen, co-president of Unite Here Local 11, said hed hoped the pension fund would compel the hotels management to avoid labor strife and agree to a deal. Instead, he said, the hotel has chosen to fight.

When we went into this we expected them to be first, not near the end, Petersen said of resolving a contract. I dont know why they would think its in their pensioners best interest to continue to put this hotel at risk, financially or image-wise.

Representatives for the carpenters union did not respond to requests for comment. The pension fund purchased the property in 2021 for $75 million, according to The Real Deal, a real estate industry site. The hotel is listed among the pension funds closely held corporations in its 2022 annual report.

The union contract at the Hyatt Regency LAX would be with its operator, hotel management company Aimbridge Hospitality, which is owned by the private equity firm Advent International, rather than the pension fund itself. But Petersen said hotel owners ultimately hold sway over the operators they contract with.

In our business the owner has the power, he said.

The Hyatt Regency LAX is one of half a dozen properties operated by Aimbridge where the union is still pushing for contracts. Stephanie Peterson, the companys head of marketing and communications, accused the union of backtracking on a deal in January and said the union was more focused on growing its membership.

While the union is wasting its members dues on launching smear campaigns that generate fake news rife with inaccuracies and lies, Aimbridge has been diligently working toward an agreement centered on its associates and their livelihoods, Peterson said in an email.

Aimbridges offer is cheap and inferior, said Petersen of Unite Here.

Our members arent interested in settling for less. And why should they? he said.