Union Management and Union Members prefer union friendly hotels.

Three hundred and fifty local unions and more than 800,000 members make up LA’s strong union presence, making it an ideal city for union-specific meetings and conventions.

With little progress to date on municipal labor contracts that expired nearly four months ago, city officials and union leaders are bracing themselves for an expensive negotiating period that will likely extend into next year.

Senior Nutter administration aides could not provide a breakdown of how much they budgeted to cover contract-related costs with the city's four unions, nor whether that figure was still on target given the time delay.

However, the mayor's senior aides say they expect that total taxpayer dollars spent to strike new agreements will almost certainly exceed the $2.6 million spent by the city last year.

According to a memo provided to City Council by the Mayor's Office of Labor Relations, a review of payment vouchers, and interviews with city and union officials, the bulk of last year's expenses were, as expected, related to consulting and legal fees.

The newly-constructed, union owned Embassy Suites Washington DC - Convention Center hotel is conveniently located in downtown Washington DC between the White House and the US Capitol - just 1.5 blocks from the new Washington DC Convention Center.