A midtown hotel is seeking an emergency court order to crush a new take on the old inflatable union protest rat — a giant, blow up bedbug.
The New Yorker Hotel at 481 Eighth Ave. says 🤪in a lawsuit filed in Manh⛦attan Supreme Court Thursday that District Council No. 9 has installed a lumbering inflatable bedbug outside its entrance and is passing out leaflets to visitors falsely claiming the hotel is infested with the nasty bloodsuckers.
The hotel c🅰laims the stunt is in protest of low wages being paid by an outside contractor who is do🎀ing work on the building.
The painters’ union has waged its campaign for the past few days from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the suit says.
When an HR manager protested that the giant bedbug was scaring away customers a protest organizer named John Drew allegedly said, “Pay the area wages and this will all stop,” according to court papers.
The hotel is asking a j♔udge to immediately bar the union from continuing to spread lies about its cleanliness and award monetary damages for lost b🧔usiness.
A website ca𒅌lled The Bedbug Registry has six reviews. Of those postings, two New Yorker guests claim they saw evidence of the critters at the hotel.
A rep for the union said everyone was out to 🌠lunch.