Politicians ask Taylor Swift to drop everything now, postpone L.A. concerts
Some California politicians have joined striking hotel workers in encouraging Taylor Swift to postpone her Eras Tour dates

Most cities have been rolling out the red carpet for Taylor Swift and basically handing her the keys to the kingdom. Yet there’s a somewhat different response in Los Angeles, the final stop on the U.S. leg of the Eras Tour (this year). Several politicians, including California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, have called for Swift to postpone her L.A. concerts in solidarity with striking hotel workers in the area.
Last week, SoCal hotel workers from Unite HERE Local 11 themselves called upon the pop star to postpone. “Your shows make our hotels a lot of money. In Los Angeles, hotels are doubling and tripling what they charge because you are coming. They also add junk fees on rooms, just like Ticketmaster does. But we see none of it,” read and open letter from the union. “When we returned to work after the pandemic, the hotels upped our workload and cut our paychecks by not letting us clean rooms on a daily basis. The hotels are making more money than ever, but we can’t afford to live close to work, so some of us sleep in our cars between shifts. Our paychecks are so small many of us are losing our homes.”