{"article":{"id":117290,"heading":"Two week strike called at 4 SF hotels","author":"UNITE HERE Local 2 repost","created":"2004-09-30 09:02:21","modified":"2004-09-30 09:02:21","last_modified":"Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:02:21","article":"

Members of Local 2 commenced a two week strike this morning at four San Francisco hotels. These hotels include:

* The Argent Hotel

* The Hilton San Francisco

* The Crowne Plaza Union Square

* The Mark Hopkins Inter-Continental

Workers will return to work on Wednesday, October 13th at 12:01a.m. A press conference with union leaders is scheduled for this afternoon.

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San Francisco hotel workers have been working without a union contract since August 14. Although 15 bargaining sessions have been held, little progress has been made in the areas of:

* Continued comprehensive health care for hotel workers and their families;

* Fully funded pensions;

* Fair wage increases;

* Stopping unscrupulous subcontractors from their abusive treatment of night porters;

* Ending excessive workloads which began after September 11 when the hotel industry responded to a drop in tourism by laying off huge numbers of staff but failed to re-hire workers since tourism rebounded;

* Ensuring union security by protecting the rights of workers in newly developed or acquired hotels to be represented by a union; and

* The ability to bargain again in 2006.

The contract negotiations affect 8,000 union members at more than 60 hotels and motels amounting to 85% of the industry in San Francisco. UNITE HERE! Local 2 represents cooks, room cleaners, bartenders, bellmen, food and beverage servers, bussers, housemen, PBX operators and dishwashers. <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.unitehere2.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Hotel workers call a two week strike at 4 San Francisco hotels.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/09\/117290.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}