San Francisco labor unions, advocacy groups and elected officials on Wednesday called for a boycott of Airbnb over the short-term rental company’s legal battle seeking a massive business tax refund from the city.

The boycott campaign is the latest escalation in an effort to get Airbnb to drop the lawsuit it filed late last year, which aims to claw back $120 million that the company alleges it overpaid in business taxes.

Organized labor representatives and some Democrats have blamed the lawsuit, along with similar litigation from other major San Francisco tech companies, for compounding a budget crunch that saw some of the city’s most significant spending cuts in years.

“When a city that has given them so much now is facing a budget deficit of $800 million in the next two fiscal yea

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