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Take Action: Tell San Francisco Hotels, End the Lockout!
A number of international hotel chains, including the Hyatt, Hilton, and Holiday Inn groups, have radically escalated a bargaining impasse in San Francisco by locking out 4,000 unionized hotel workers. The primary issues of the impasse are health care benefits, wages and the length of a contract.
The hotels are taking an incredibly hard line, refusing mediation and a 90-day cooling off period proposed by Mayor Newsom and voting to cruelly block an extension of health benefits to locked-out workers that was to be paid out from a joint hotel-union trust fund.
Tell the hotel chains who've locked out their San Francisco employees that you will not patronize any of their hotels in any city until they end the lockout and get back to bargaining in good faith with their employees.
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Unitehere! Local 2 needs your help. They need people on the picket lines (just go to a hotel and pick up a sign), at strike headquarters (Howard Street between 7th and 8th) and to phonebank during the day from Local 2, 209 Golden Gate @Leavenworth.
Contact Kelly Dugan 864-8770, ext. 751 to phonebank. General info. call Strike HQ at (415) 503-1889.
Please join UNITE HERE! Local 2, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and other special guests for a rally in Union Square, on Tuesday, October 12th, at 4:15 p.m.
As you know, Local 2 has for months been struggling to win a fair contract with San Francisco's hotel industry. On September 29th, the union called a two-week strike at 4 hotels. Two days later, 10 other hotels retaliated by locking out their own employees. Then, last week, all 14 hotels announced that they would continue their lock out indefinitely -- keeping workers out of their jobs, and posing a real threat to the recovery of San Francisco's economy.
Please come join us at Union Square, to send a clear message that the hotel industry must begin treating workers, and the entire San Francisco community, with respect.
Thank you,
Kelly Dugan
Community Organizer
415 864 8770 x751
http://www.unitehere.org/