San Francisco hotel workers’ three-month strike ends

San Francisco’s last remaining hotel striking workers voted last week to approve a tentative deal for a new contract with Hilton, ending a three-month strike.

The vote follows similar deals reached with Marriott and Hyatt hotels over the past week, ending a strike by about 1,750 workers at those hotels, according to the union Unite Here Local 2, The Associated Press reported.

Since September, more than 10,000 hotel employees On strike According to Unite Here Local 2, the San Francisco strike has expanded to about 2,500 hotel employees in 11 U.S. cities. arrested during demonstrations In October, union members sat on a busy street next to the Hilton Hotel.

The deal with Hilton will cover about 900 employees, including 650 workers who have been on strike for more than three months at a Hilton hotel near San Francisco’s Union Square neighborhood and 250 workers who are preparing to strike at another Hilton hotel across the street. explain.

“We believe this agreement is good for our team members and our hotels,” Hilton senior vice president Paul Ades said in a statement. “We look forward to welcoming our team members back to the hotel. Get back to work and continue to provide our signature hospitality to our guests.”

The union said the agreement includes the preservation of the union health insurance plan, wage increases and new protections against understaffing and increased workloads. The new contract expires in 2028.

“These 93 days were not easy, and I am proud that my colleagues and I never gave up,” Bill Fung, a janitor at the Union Square Hotel, said in a statement. “We stood together through thick and thin, and even though there were some tough days, it was all worth it.”

Hundreds of hotel workers, represented by the Culinary Workers Union, remain on strike in Las Vegas Take a walk after get off work It was mid-November in the midst of a fierce battle with Virgin Hotels for a new contract. This is the union’s longest strike in more than two decades.

Last March, hotel workers in Southern California ratified contract After multiple strikes in the summer of 2023, there are more than 30 hotels.

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