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USA: Support locked-out San Francisco hotel workers
Over 4,000 hotel workers are locked out of 14 downtown San Francisco hotels. The hotel companies have put a contract proposal on the table with miniscule pay increases and which would require hotel workers to make copays that would put health benefits out of reach for most workers. The workers are on picket lines 24 hours a day and fighting back, but they need your support. On September 29th, Workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 2 went on strike in four downtown San Francisco hotels. The workers were seeking a measured step to move the hotel companies forward in negotiations that had been badly stalled. UNITE HERE Local 2 announced at the time of the strike that they would return to work after two weeks. The hotel employers in San Francisco responded by locking workers out in ten additional hotels. Later they announced that the lockout would last indefinitely.
Workers in San Francisco are seeking a contract that maintains their benefits, includes reasonable wage increases and a contract which expires in 2006 along with many other major hotel cities in North America. The companies have responded by proposing miniscule wage increases and benefit takeaways over the course of a 5-year contract. Hotel workers in Washington DC and Los Angeles, CA are locked in similar struggles with their employers.
Please support Hotel Workers in San Francisco and elsewhere by sending the message below to the Hotel CEOs.
(LabourStart has full coverage of this dispute here.)
| This campaign is now closed. |
| San Francisco Hotel Employers have ended their lockout and agreed to allow workers to return to their jobs after locking out the unionized workforce for over seven weeks. "While we are extremely pleased to be returning to work, we need to stay focused on the issue at hand, which is to win a contract that continues to uphold the union standard in San Francisco," says Mike Casey President of UNITE HERE Local 2. Hotel Workers in Washington DC and Los Angeles as well as San Francisco continue to fight for fair contracts. |
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Campaign launched:
25-Oct-2004 |