THE US baseball team LA Dodgers have become the latest to cross hotel picket lines in Boston. 

The Dodgers arrived at the Ritz-Carlton Boston on Monday in advance of today’s first World Series match against the Boston Red Sox. 

Cleaners, cooks, bar staff and other employees at hotels across Boston have been striking for regular work hours, job security, protections against automation and updated sexual harassment rules since October 3. 

The New York Yankees undermined the strike one day after it began when the team arrived at the same hotel and walked passed workers chanting: “Don’t check in, check out.”

Unite Here Local 26, the union organising the strike, described the Yankees’ actions as “a slap in the face to all Bostonians.”

Unite Here Local 26 president Brian Lang said at the time: “We understand that there’s a very intense rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, but quite frankly we’re a little outraged they would take it out on working-class people who are out here sacrificing to improve their livelihoods.”

Since the Yankees scabbed over the picket line, the strike has gained widespread attention in the United States and spread to Detroit, Michigan; Honolulu, Hawaii; Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose in California.

Unite Here claimed on Twitter that Local 26 “tried to help the Dodgers find a non-striking union hotel, but the prettyboy ballclub says new hotel has ‘not enough suites’.”

Speaking on the latest developments today, Lang said: “There are 1,500 people who live paycheck-to-paycheck in the third week of a strike, who are fighting for a liveable income so one job would be enough. 

“We’re talking about millionaire baseball players who, in many cases, seem to have forgotten where they came from, who would rather sleep in a hotel, even if it’s struck, because it has suites. 

“I personally think that [former LA Dodger and first African American to play Major League Baseball] Jackie Robinson is rolling over in his grave right now. He’s an icon who that organisation hails as a hero and they act completely differently than he would in this situation.

“I hope crossing our picket lines is an omen and that just as with the Yankees, the Red Sox will prevail.”