A tidal wave of red - Local 5 hotel workers and supporters gathered to protest the owners of the Hyatt Regency Waikiki.
Police and EMS were out in force as an HPD helicopter circled overhead.
"Disrupting traffic through here...we were gonna head out but couldn't, it was blocked," said Larry Graber, a guest of the Hyatt.
A large group marched onto Kalakaua, an act of civil disobedience.
"I stepped up to the plate to say I could do it," said Bobbie Palencia, Hilton Hawaiian Village front services clerk.
"Talk is cheap, people talk all the time. Getting arrested proves that we mean what we say," said Eric Gill, Local 5 secretary and treasurer.
The union says Hyatt's owners are taking unfair advantage of tough times in their current contract negotiations.
Hyatt management says workers got contracted raises during the recession.
"Our intent is to provide further wage increases and to provide further benefit options. Because that's what we do in every negotiation, but until we get to the table to do that, nothing happens," said David Lewin, of the Hyatt Regency Waikiki.
Lewin says at issue are work rules and who is willing to do what.
"We believe in our cause, believe in our cause had to do this," said Darrell Asato, Sheraton Hotel waiter.
84 people were handcuffed and pre-processed on the street, then booked at HPD's main cell-block.
"Nothing you do lightly, I was apprehensive too but it was worth it," said Amy Agbayani, Local 5 supporter.
After posting 50-dollars bail, each, demonstrators were greeted with lei.
"We did what we set out to do and I think it went very well," said Gill.
"I hope Hyatt gets the message, I hope Goldman Sachs gets the message," said Palencia.
