Unionized hotel workers and some Ilikai condominium owners will stage a joint rally and picket outside the Waikiki hotel/condo at 4:15 p.m. today.

The rally will include UNITEHERE! Local 5 workers, members from other hotels and some condominium owners who have been unhappy with developer Brian Anderson and his company Anekona Ltd., which bought into the property in 2006.

Bruce Lum, who has worked in the Ilikai's engineering department for 26 years, said: "We need the public to know what's going on at the Ilikai, there's no aloha from management anymore. Local people don't treat people like how we've been treated."

Anderson has said he has been struggling to make much-needed improvements to the aging property but has not been able to gain the support of a majority of the rest of the owners.

Owners have said that Anekona has made promises but not improvements and has tried to make changes without getting approval from the rest of the owners.

"Nearly half of the workers at the Ilikai that once worked there are no longer employed," said Local 5 spokesman Cade Watanabe.

UNITE HERE was created by the merger of two unions, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees.