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LOS ANGELES – A slew of stars from Ellen DeGeneres and Jay Leno to Sharon Osbourne and Richard Branson launched a boycott of the famed Beverly Hills Hotel early this year after it became know its owner, Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei, had authorized Shariah law in his Southeast Asian nation. Under the draconian law, adulterers and homosexuals can be stoned to death, and robbers and thieves can have their limbs amputated.But there may be more to the Hollywood-heavy boycott than meets the eye, says a source very closely connected to the hotel.“This isn’t just about LGBT rights,” the source told Fox411. “It’s about a union dispute.”The Beverly Hills Hotel and its sister venue, Hotel Bel-Air, are among the few non-union hotels in Los Angeles, something that has long concerned the local hospitality union, UNITE HERE Local 11. The union’s website lists both properties on its “boycott” list. Local 11 has sought to unionize the hotel ever since the early ’90s, when it closed for renovations and reopened as a non-union workplace
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