In June, a staff walkout over overcrowding and chronic understaffing delayed opening. Unions argue that mass tourism leaves too few eyes on too many rooms and creates pressure points where construction zones, freight access and visitor flows intersect.

“I’ve been through periods before, when the media ignored everything, when things were happening beneath the surface, and they weren’t known, and then they came out. And when I see all of what’s going on today… People are coming to understand that we are part of nature. And nature operates in seasons. If you don’t plant the seed in the springtime, you won’t have a harvest in the fall. And sometimes we’re living in a period where we’re planting seeds, and sometimes we’re living in a period when it’s all coming out. But it doesn’t mean that the struggle has ended.”

– Dave Dellinger