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"content": "\u003cp>Outside the Hilton\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a> Union Square, life at the picket line has become routine for workers like Evelyn Luarca. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011319/sf-hotel-worker-strike-enters-sixth-week-no-deal-in-sight\">For over two months\u003c/a>, the banquet waitress has volunteered to cook and serve meals to fellow strikers chanting and banging loud drums in front of the city’s largest hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 50-year-old prepares eggs or pancakes at 5:30 a.m. under a tent every weekday. Then comes a lunch shift that won’t end until after 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I wasn’t staying busy like this, I’d be a lot more stressed out, just thinking,” said Luarca, as she dished out frijoles charros\u003cem>, \u003c/em>a steamy bean and meat soup, to coworkers on a recent day. “This is the longest I’ve ever been on strike. The bosses want to break us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout, which began Sept. 22, has grown to include 2,500 housekeepers, bellhops, bartenders and other workers at six downtown hotels operated by some of the industry’s largest brands. An additional 1,600 hotel workers in the city could join the strike, according to the union Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their demands include wage increases and keeping health care costs down, similar to what thousands of Unite Here members in Honolulu, San Diego and other cities recently achieved in new contracts after walking off the job. However, the labor standoff in San Francisco is expected to continue as a post-pandemic tourism slump complicates reaching a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers picket outside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s tourism industry relies heavily on convention business, which is set to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftravel.com/media/press-release/san-francisco%E2%80%99s-convention-business-to-rebound-2025-group-hotel-room-nights\">increase next year\u003c/a>. But unlike Honolulu, San Diego and other cities that have largely rebounded, hotel occupancy and revenue in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/Status%20of%20the%20San%20Francisco%20Economy%20November%202024.pdf\">remained significantly lower\u003c/a> than in 2019. San Francisco collected $414 million in hotel tax revenue that fiscal year but just \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/CCSF%20ACFR%20FY2024%20(Final%20-%20Upload)_0.pdf\">$283 million\u003c/a> in fiscal year 2023-2024. Lingering perceptions of homelessness and crime on city streets are still discouraging more conferences and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sherwyn, who directs the Center for Innovative Hospitality, Labor and Employment Relations at Cornell University, said the union’s proposal to raise labor costs is tough to advance at a time when the real estate investor groups that own those hotels are seeing lower sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employees are saying, ‘Hey look, I need a big increase because I need to keep up with inflation.’ The owners are saying, ‘Look, this building, this business is not doing well. And we’re not in a position to give raises out of the revenue,’” Sherwyn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most walkouts are short because they are difficult to sustain as workers forego their paychecks. Unite Here offers a weekly strike stipend, but it’s a fraction of what employees like Luarca normally earn. She has cut all non-essential purchases, including Christmas presents, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are doing is a very big effort, but it is for a just cause and a long-term benefit,” said Luarca, who has worked at the Hilton Union Square for nearly 30 years. “I’m prepared to fight for as long as it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1359\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1920x1305.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A union worker drums on a bucket as she pickets outside of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Sept. 3, 2024, in San Francisco, California. For the second time this month, 1,500 Unite Here Local 2 hotel workers from the Grand Hyatt, Hilton, and Westin St. Francis in Union Square have walked off the job, protesting pay and understaffing. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both parties have dug their heels in, waiting for the other to budge on issues such as health insurance costs, which have risen faster than wages and become a major flashpoint for strikes, said Rebecca Givan, who teaches labor and employment relations at Rutgers University. Union and hotel negotiators have not met in weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employers are gambling that if they stay out long enough, the workers will sort of lose hope and won’t be able to afford to stay out any longer,” Givan said. “It’s really a war of attrition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott, the employers that operate the hotels, rebuffed a union offer to accept modest wage increases in exchange for a share of profits if sales recovered in coming years, said Anand Singh, Unite Here Local 2’s chief negotiator. Conversely, the union rejected a proposal that would make health care more expensive for employees, especially new hires, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016316 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230822-SFSU-45-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies have the resources to deliver on a fair contract,” Singh said. “This is really about their attempt to roll back the standard for working people in the city and permanently reduce their labor costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh believes that the 1,900-room Hilton Union Square, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2024/11/18/hilton-parc-55-hotel-unionsquare-eastdil-buy-offer.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search\">up for sale\u003c/a> along with the nearby Parc 55, is not a bellwether for the city’s hotel industry. The two hotels’ last owner, Park Hotels & Resorts, refused to pay related loan debt as the buildings’ value plunged by $1 billion since 2016. Meanwhile, the Hilton has seen many cancellations due to the strike, contributing to a multimillion operating loss, according to a bondholders’ report on the properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton and Marriott did not respond to requests for comment, though they have stated they are committed to negotiating a fair contract and serving guests through the disruptions. A Hyatt spokesperson declined to comment on any economic impacts of the strike but said the company is offering competitive wages, health care and retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The safety and security of guests remains a top priority, and we have contingency plans in place to minimize the impact on hotel operations related to strike activity,” Michael D’Angelo, Hyatt’s head of labor relations in the Americas, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has asked visitors not to eat, sleep or meet at the sites with strikes, including the Palace, Grand Hyatt, Marriott Union Square, Marriott Marquee and Westin St. Francis. In response, \u003ca href=\"https://www.itfglobal.org/en/news/lufthansa-airlines-pulls-crew-striking-us-hotel-in-victory-international-solidarity\">Lufthansa Airlines\u003c/a> and a conference by the \u003ca href=\"https://am.aals.org/hotel/\">Association of American Law Schools\u003c/a> have pulled their business from the Hilton Union Square. Some economists participating in another conference scheduled for January are urging the expected 13,000 participants to \u003ca href=\"https://aaronsojourner.org/hotel-workers-strike-and-the-2025-assa-annual-meeting/\">cancel their reservations\u003c/a> at hotels with labor unrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unite Here believes mounting economic losses will pressure the companies to reach a deal, as guests don’t like to encounter picketers banging on drums all day, and the brands’ reputation can suffer. But that remains to be seen, Sherwyn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are the owners going to increase their labor costs when business is so low, or are they going to say, ‘You know what, it’s not worth it, I’ll give [the hotel] back to the bank’?” Sherwyn said. “To say that five years ago would be theoretical puffery nonsense, but not anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout, which began Sept. 22, has grown to include 2,500 housekeepers, bellhops, bartenders and other workers at six downtown hotels operated by some of the industry’s largest brands. An additional 1,600 hotel workers in the city could join the strike, according to the union Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their demands include wage increases and keeping health care costs down, similar to what thousands of Unite Here members in Honolulu, San Diego and other cities recently achieved in new contracts after walking off the job. However, the labor standoff in San Francisco is expected to continue as a post-pandemic tourism slump complicates reaching a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers picket outside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s tourism industry relies heavily on convention business, which is set to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftravel.com/media/press-release/san-francisco%E2%80%99s-convention-business-to-rebound-2025-group-hotel-room-nights\">increase next year\u003c/a>. But unlike Honolulu, San Diego and other cities that have largely rebounded, hotel occupancy and revenue in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/Status%20of%20the%20San%20Francisco%20Economy%20November%202024.pdf\">remained significantly lower\u003c/a> than in 2019. San Francisco collected $414 million in hotel tax revenue that fiscal year but just \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/CCSF%20ACFR%20FY2024%20(Final%20-%20Upload)_0.pdf\">$283 million\u003c/a> in fiscal year 2023-2024. Lingering perceptions of homelessness and crime on city streets are still discouraging more conferences and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sherwyn, who directs the Center for Innovative Hospitality, Labor and Employment Relations at Cornell University, said the union’s proposal to raise labor costs is tough to advance at a time when the real estate investor groups that own those hotels are seeing lower sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employees are saying, ‘Hey look, I need a big increase because I need to keep up with inflation.’ The owners are saying, ‘Look, this building, this business is not doing well. And we’re not in a position to give raises out of the revenue,’” Sherwyn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most walkouts are short because they are difficult to sustain as workers forego their paychecks. Unite Here offers a weekly strike stipend, but it’s a fraction of what employees like Luarca normally earn. She has cut all non-essential purchases, including Christmas presents, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are doing is a very big effort, but it is for a just cause and a long-term benefit,” said Luarca, who has worked at the Hilton Union Square for nearly 30 years. “I’m prepared to fight for as long as it takes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1359\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1-1920x1305.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A union worker drums on a bucket as she pickets outside of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Sept. 3, 2024, in San Francisco, California. For the second time this month, 1,500 Unite Here Local 2 hotel workers from the Grand Hyatt, Hilton, and Westin St. Francis in Union Square have walked off the job, protesting pay and understaffing. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both parties have dug their heels in, waiting for the other to budge on issues such as health insurance costs, which have risen faster than wages and become a major flashpoint for strikes, said Rebecca Givan, who teaches labor and employment relations at Rutgers University. Union and hotel negotiators have not met in weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employers are gambling that if they stay out long enough, the workers will sort of lose hope and won’t be able to afford to stay out any longer,” Givan said. “It’s really a war of attrition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott, the employers that operate the hotels, rebuffed a union offer to accept modest wage increases in exchange for a share of profits if sales recovered in coming years, said Anand Singh, Unite Here Local 2’s chief negotiator. Conversely, the union rejected a proposal that would make health care more expensive for employees, especially new hires, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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San Francisco police arrested 85 people for the demonstration, according to a spokesperson for the union representing the workers, Unite Here Local 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011319/sf-hotel-worker-strike-enters-sixth-week-no-deal-in-sight\">a month on the picket line and with no deal in sight\u003c/a>, workers said they felt they had to escalate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to make pressure on management and the big companies for them to see that we need our contract to be signed,” said Elena Duran, one of the striking workers on the cable car tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duran said she and the others on the tracks were prepared to face arrest, and police arrested them one by one, including Duran. Loud cheers erupted as each person was taken to a police bus parked around the corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 striking workers and their supporters took to the streets outside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on O’Farrell Street and marched to the Westin St. Francis, two locations where workers are on strike. Monday marked week six of the picket demanding wage increases and pensions that keep up with the cost of living and arguing that the service cuts have left them overworked when there are surges of guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike includes 2,000 housekeepers, servers, bartenders, cooks, dishwashers, bellhops, doormen and more at five Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotels around Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was short-staffed on a shift and helping one guest, another guest’s bag was stolen right in front of the hotel,” said Jacov Awoke, a doorman at Hilton San Francisco Union Square for 35 years. “I’m on strike because I want my hotel to invest in the city and the workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241030-DowntownHotelStrikersMarch-23-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241030-DowntownHotelStrikersMarch-23-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241030-DowntownHotelStrikersMarch-23-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241030-DowntownHotelStrikersMarch-23-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241030-DowntownHotelStrikersMarch-23-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241030-DowntownHotelStrikersMarch-23-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241030-DowntownHotelStrikersMarch-23-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizzy Tapia (center), president of Unite Here Local 2, sits alongside hotel workers and their allies in front of the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco on Oct. 30, 2024, during a protest demanding that employers invest in hotel staff and restore guest services. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unite Here said they offered during August negotiations to make their own compensation contingent on future hotel profits. They also offered to forgo most other guaranteed wage increases, but a deal with the hotels remains elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael D’Angelo, head of labor relations for Hyatt in the Americas, said the hotel is waiting on the union to resume bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed that UNITE HERE Local 2 continues to strike while Hyatt remains willing to continue bargaining in good faith,” D’Angelo said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton and Marriott did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco strikers aren’t alone: 2,000 Hilton workers in Honolulu have maintained a picket line for over a month, while hundreds of workers in Boston reached a tentative deal with Hilton on Tuesday after three weeks on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011319 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-07-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, workers also ask their employers to take proactive measures to end the “doom loop” and bring foot traffic back to downtown. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, we get a status update on the San Francisco mayoral race. Later, we dive into the ongoing hotel worker strike in San Francisco and discuss why the oil industry is getting involved in a local election in a city with no refineries. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3586251868&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Voter Guide\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/propfest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop Fest 2024\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010828/oil-industry-spends-thousands-on-local-bay-area-election-in-city-with-no-refineries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oil Industry Spends Thousands on Local Bay Area Election in City With No Refineries\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010336/new-polls-san-francisco-mayors-race-peskin-lurie-surging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Polls in San Francisco Mayor’s Race Show Peskin and Lurie Surging\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011319/sf-hotel-worker-strike-enters-sixth-week-no-deal-in-sight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Hotel Worker Strike Enters 6th Week, No Deal in Sight\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://kqed.applytojob.com/apply/ECNyMQ12yY/The-Bay-Podcast-Intern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apply to be our intern\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:32] Welcome to The Bay’s October edition of our monthly news roundup. There are only so many stories that we get to do each week, so we spend this time talking about some of the other stories that we have been following this month. I am joined by our producer, Jessica Kariisa. This is her very first news roundup with us. What’s up, Jessica?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:59] Hi, Ericka. Happy to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:01] And senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Hello. It’s me, back again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] And it’s kind of crazy, but election week is less than a week away. And I feel like even though I try to avoid talking about the election in some of my social spaces, it just keeps coming up. How are you all feeling?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:26] Not exactly sure how to feel. Lots of feelings. You know, I think there’s like two levels of it. There’s like me as a journalist who’s, like, excited to find out what happens, and then there’s me as a regular person who is very nervous to find out what happens. And so, yeah, just a mix of feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:46] When I’m thinking about what Tuesday night could be like and the days and weeks after, I feel a considerable amount of anxiety regarding what will happen on the presidential level and frankly, whether there will be political violence egged on by or even committed by supporters of former President Donald Trump. It’s this weird mix because there’s a lot of work to do that’s not directly related to the presidential race. I mean, we’re a local podcast, you know, we’re not in a swing state. But there’s this sort of overhanging sort of cloud and like, what is the cloud? Is it like a storm? Is it a hurricane? I don’t know how far you want to take this analogy. I don’t know. We’ve also got a job to do and these elections on the state and local level are also very important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:30] Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like a lot of us in the newsroom sort of see Election Day as sort of a goal post. Like if we could just get to that day, we will make it through. But it really does feel like just the start of whatever happens next in many ways. I mean, have you all voted yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] I have voted. I dropped in my mail-in ballot at the library a couple of days ago. My partner is a first-time voter and he is not yet registered. But he will, I think, vote like in the last sort of stretch of the voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] Alan, have you voted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] I filled up my ballot the day I got it in the mail and then it’s been sitting on my desk ever since. So I guess I haven’t voted yet. I should probably grab that and drop it off at the library at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:20] Well, if you are like me and have not filled out your ballot yet and maybe need help doing so, make sure to check out Prop Fest. Just going to plug that right here. It’s a collaboration between The Bay and Bay Curious podcasts where we break down each of the ten statewide ballot propositions. It’s super helpful and we’ve gotten a lot of really great feedback. You can find that at kqed.org/prop fest. And while you’re at it, bookmark KQED’s very comprehensive voter guide, kqed.org/voterguide. And speaking of the election, let’s get into the stories that we brought today, starting with you, Alan and an update on the mayor’s race in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:10] Well, with six days left to vote, after a long, bruising campaign, after millions and millions of dollars spent, the frontrunner for the race for mayor of San Francisco is… nobody. It’s still a tossup. It’s really never been dominated by any one candidate this whole time. There have been some interesting shifts in the polls recently and in some campaign spending. But really, I think there’s still a path for any one of the top four major candidates to win this thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:04:39] Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit more about some of that polling? I mean, I feel like I’m getting a little bit of whiplash. One second, I’m seeing Lurie’s ahead and then I’m seeing Peskin ahead. And then I’m seeing actually, if you count ranked choice voting, someone else might be a front runner. Like do we have a sense at all of who might be edging forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:58] Yes. So just to recap, there are four major candidates here. The incumbent mayor, London Breed, the Levi Strauss, heir and CEO of the nonprofit Tipping Point, Daniel Lurie, former supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell, and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. Now, we’ve done plenty of episodes on their policy positions. You can go back and listen to those, but generally Breed, Lurie, and Farrell are sort of understood to be on the sort of moderate end of the political spectrum, while Aaron Peskin comes from the city’s traditionally progressive camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So generally what you’re seeing is polls showing that Daniel Lurie is rising in the polls and Aaron Peskin, too, I might add. One San Francisco Chronicle poll a couple of weeks back had London Breed with 24% of first place votes. But what’s interesting about that poll is it also accounted for first, second, third and fourth choices. And once you tabulate those, Daniel Lurie comes out ahead and wins over London Breed. Now, Lurie is the only one of the major candidates who does not have political experience. He’s also been pouring in a tremendous amount of money into this race. He’s actually donated more than $8 million of his own money, plus $1 million from his from his mother, Mimi Haas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] And just to remind folks, Alan, you are talking about the role that ranked choice voting plays in San Francisco. Can you remind people who aren’t familiar with ranked choice voting basically what’s happening here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:31] Sure. And, you know, not every city in the Bay Area has this. But basically, instead of just voting for one candidate, you can rank your candidates in order of preference. So when I got my ballot in the mail, the mayoral section was actually this huge grid where I could fill in bubbles for rank one, rank two, rank three, actually all the way to rank ten. If one candidate gets a majority of all first place votes, then they just win the election, right? I think it’s fair to say no candidate is going to win an outright majority. What that means is that who voters put as their second or even third choice matters a lot. And that’s where you see a real pathway for for any one of these candidates really to pull ahead and win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:12] Okay. So it looks like we’re seeing a possible path to victory for Daniel Lurie, possibly even Aaron Peskin. But what about Mark Farrell and London Breed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:25] Both of them definitely still have a shot at winning this. I’m by no means saying that that Lurie and Peskin are the most likely winners of the mayor’s race. London Breed is still the incumbent. Voters are more likely to know who she is just because she’s the incumbent. And Mark Farrell has been at the top of many polls leading up to this past month or so. Some of the changes in polling where you’ve seen Laurie and Peskin rise, I think you could attribute to a lot of attack ads against Breed and Farrell, but also some real missteps and even scandals among both of them. Questions about how Mark Farrell has been handling his campaign finances and then for London Breed, I mean, in addition to just being the mayor so when things feel like they’re not going well, they get put on the mayor, you know, there have been sort of conflict of interest and misspending allegations for one of her major programs called the Dream Keeper Initiative. So it’s possible that these stories and attack ads that spring from these stories have had a major impact on both of these candidates, but they both still have a real chance of winning for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:26] I mean, Alan, you’re a voter in San Francisco. What does it look like around town where you live lately? What are your YouTube ads looking like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:37] There are so many ads and certainly there have been signs around the neighborhood where I live for quite a while. But it does feel to me like it’s ramping up. Not just mailers, but on basically every streaming app. You know, I’m just trying to watch Veep, but then I get a radio ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:53] (Laughs) Why are you watching Veep right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:55] I think we’re all watching Veep right now (laughs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:01] Many, many text messages. In fact, I don’t know if you get those political text messages that say at the end, reply stop to opt out. And in my message history, it’s just me going, “stop, stop, stop, stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:09:12] And they never stop coming!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:13] There’s so many of them. But but what’s interesting, too, is, is the substance of them. What I’m seeing, and this is again, anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt, is an uptick in ads attacking Daniel Lurie, saying Lurie doesn’t have enough experience. He’s just a trust fund baby. He hasn’t had a real job. How can you trust this guy? I actually got one with Daniel Lurie where he’s wearing a suit that’s too big for him, you know, kind of implying that he’s like three kids in a trenchcoat or something. So I’m seeing a lot of ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[00:09:47] The other thing I will say is that there’s also been concern from moderate donors about Aaron Peskin because Peskin, being the lone candidate from the progressive camp, has also been rising in the polls. You know, in some of these more recent polls, Peskin is polling second or even first for many moderate groups like Grow S.F,. Together, S.F., you know, that have a lot of tech money behind them. Many of them either endorse, you know, Breed Lurie or Farrell or all three. What they all agree on is keep Aaron Peskin out of the mayor’s office. And so we’re seeing an uptick and a push from donors there because they sense and fear that, you know, this thing being a toss up, all of this infighting from moderate candidates could actually propel Aaron Peskin to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[00:10:32] I think another reason this is a tossup is that one other category that polls very high is undecided. A lot of people aren’t following the mayor’s race all year. In fact, most people aren’t following the mayor’s race all year. People are inundated with ads or maybe they’re just getting acquainted for the first time. Maybe some people don’t like all of their options. Maybe they feel overwhelmed by all of their options. So that’s another reason why I mean, I could not predict what’s going to happen in the mayor’s race. It really could go any which way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] Well, Alan, thank you so much for updating us on the status of the mayoral race in San Francisco. Definitely going to be one we will continue to watch on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:14] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sponsor message]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:37] And welcome back to The Bay’s October News Roundup where me and The Bay team talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Let’s get right back into it with producer Jessica Kariisa. What have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:11:50] Yeah, so around 2000 San Francisco hotel workers have been on strike and the strike actually just entered its sixth week. It’s pretty crazy because most strikes only last about a week. So for these people to be on strike this long, it’s a pretty big deal. And very recently, even more people joined the strike. I think about 400 hotel workers from the Palace Hotel, which is a very iconic hotel in the city. It’s part of a nationwide strike that’s been going on also for a little while now that includes over 4000 hotel workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] Yeah, I take the bus through downtown Market Street to get to work, and every now and then I see a strike going on outside. Why are so many hotel workers on strike right now, Jessica?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:39] Basically, during the pandemic, as you can imagine, people were not traveling. They were not going to hotels. And as a result of that financial loss, hotels cut staff, but they haven’t actually recovered that staff even as hotel traffic has gone back up. And so that’s led to, according to the Unite Here union, which covers these hospitality workers, that’s led to higher workloads. That’s led to, you know, less opportunities even for work. You know, things like automatic daily housecleaning have been like either eliminated or become optional for guests, which has limited the hours that people are working. And they also say that their wages just haven’t really matched up to the rising cost of living. So it’s all this big sort of stew that is still the effects of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] So what are their demands specifically? And is there one big contract that is being negotiated among all these workers across states? Or how does this work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:41] The union has different contracts with different hotels. So the hotels where people are striking include the Hilton, the Hyatt and the Marriott Hotels. So all across the nation, they all had different contracts that expired at different times. In San Francisco, their contract expired in August. And prior to that, there were months and months of negotiations where nothing really happened. Their biggest demand is, you know, an increase in wages. They also want the hotels to increase staffing back to pre-COVID levels. They want health care benefits, pensions, typical things that you would see in a union contract negotiation. But I think the big thing here is the return to pre-COVID staffing levels. Just because the amount of work that these hotel workers have taken on and this is like bellhops, you know, people who clean rooms, dishwashers, servers, bartenders, they say is just too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:40] So what is the argument from management then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] Management says that they have increased wages over the years. And they also insist that they are trying to cooperate with the union as best as they can. But in a lot of their public statements, they also really seem to be emphasizing, you know, minimizing disruptions for guests. Their focus is really, you know, with people not working and strikes happening outside of hotels, that they want to normalize the experience for their guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[00:15:11] But to that point, the union released a website that collects all the reviews of these hotels that have been striking, particularly the negative reviews that, you know, really emphasize what these hotels are missing by not having these workers there. And it’s been really interesting to see. You know, you’ll see stuff like “4/10 poor. The strike made it not enjoyable and room was filthy.” You know, or “showed up on day two of the strike. And the hotel gave no warning that I’d have to walk across the picket line.” So things like that, just to sort of really emphasize their cause. So, yeah, well, we’ll see what happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:54] And you mentioned this has been going on for six weeks now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:15:58] Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:58] What do we know about the status of negotiations between these workers and the hotels? And do we have a sense of when this could end?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:08] Yeah, So it seems to be a real stalemate. Representatives from the hotels are like, hey, we, you know, offered something up and you guys haven’t responded. One of the union rep said that the last contract that they received from Hyatt was back in August before the strike even started. And so they argue that the hotels have not been coming to the negotiation table since the strikes have started. So it’s really unclear when this will end. I think also, you know, the union is bolstered by a recent success they had last year in Southern California where they were able to, through intermittent striking, secure a huge pay raise for hotel workers down there. So, you know, it’s tough. It’s a financial risk for all these employees. But, you know, they have seen these kinds of strikes work. And so I think they’re just going to hold out until they get what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:05] Jessica, thanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:06] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:13] And just if I may bring it back to the election, we’re going to wrap this one up with an interesting story that I have been following out of the peninsula. Our colleague Ted Goldberg, who reports on oil refineries around the bay, reported last week on how the oil industry is spending thousands of dollars trying to influence a local city council race in the city of Belmont. And now you might be thinking, why Belmont? There’s no oil refinery there. Which is true. But some see this as an attempt to target Davina Hurt, who is running for city council in Belmont and who is also a top leader of the Bay Area Air Quality Management Board, which is the public agency that regulates air quality in the Bay Area. And that includes oil refineries and their impact on air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:13] Can you tell us a bit more about Davina Hurt and why the oil industry is interested in defeating her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:22] Hurt was one of 19 air district board members who in 2021 voted in favor of some of the most stringent refinery pollution controls in California history. And Hurt kind of stood out during this time because she was one of the first people from the air district board to publicly celebrate this historic vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:50] Interesting. So it’s like a bit of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:53] That is what she thinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:18:56] So when we say oil companies, the oil industry, who specifically are we talking about and what are they doing to try and influence this election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:06] So our colleague Ted Goldberg reported on essentially this super PAC that is funded by companies like Chevron, Phillips 66, Marathon Petroleum and PBF Energy, who have, through this super PAC, spent more than $23,000 supporting a Belmont City Council member named Tom McCune. And basically, this PAC has been sending pro McCune fliers out to people’s mailboxes in Belmont. What is interesting is that McCune, who I will mention, doesn’t even seem to have championed any oil industry interests and has actually said that clean air regulations is really important to him, said that he knew absolutely nothing about these fliers and didn’t approve them, didn’t know that they were going to people’s homes, until they basically started showing up. $23,000 isn’t a lot of money for a big oil company like Chevron, but it does kind of go a long way in a city like Belmont, which is a town of almost 28,000 people. I mean, it’s pretty small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:20:20] And the messaging in this case is not “vote for oil industry interests.” I mean, this is quite common, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:20:26] Yeah. There are many examples of the oil industry trying to influence local elections in this way in the Bay Area. I mean, in the last ten years, oil companies with refineries have spent even millions on city council races in cities like Richmond and Benicia. I mean, those are refinery towns. But this one is interesting because Belmont isn’t a refinery town. But I think we are sort of, as Ted Goldberg has been reporting on in the last couple of years, are really kind of at this turning point in the Bay Area’s relationship to the oil refineries that exist here. And we have seen over the last couple of years an attempt to really regulate them more. And this is just an interesting example of how the oil industry is trying to influence elections in this sort of new era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:21:31] And that is it for the Bay’s October news roundup. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, we get a status update on the San Francisco mayoral race. Later, we dive into the ongoing hotel worker strike in San Francisco and discuss why the oil industry is getting involved in a local election in a city with no refineries. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3586251868&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Voter Guide\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/propfest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop Fest 2024\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010828/oil-industry-spends-thousands-on-local-bay-area-election-in-city-with-no-refineries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oil Industry Spends Thousands on Local Bay Area Election in City With No Refineries\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010336/new-polls-san-francisco-mayors-race-peskin-lurie-surging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Polls in San Francisco Mayor’s Race Show Peskin and Lurie Surging\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011319/sf-hotel-worker-strike-enters-sixth-week-no-deal-in-sight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Hotel Worker Strike Enters 6th Week, No Deal in Sight\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://kqed.applytojob.com/apply/ECNyMQ12yY/The-Bay-Podcast-Intern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apply to be our intern\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:32] Welcome to The Bay’s October edition of our monthly news roundup. There are only so many stories that we get to do each week, so we spend this time talking about some of the other stories that we have been following this month. I am joined by our producer, Jessica Kariisa. This is her very first news roundup with us. What’s up, Jessica?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:59] Hi, Ericka. Happy to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:01] And senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Hello. It’s me, back again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] And it’s kind of crazy, but election week is less than a week away. And I feel like even though I try to avoid talking about the election in some of my social spaces, it just keeps coming up. How are you all feeling?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:26] Not exactly sure how to feel. Lots of feelings. You know, I think there’s like two levels of it. There’s like me as a journalist who’s, like, excited to find out what happens, and then there’s me as a regular person who is very nervous to find out what happens. And so, yeah, just a mix of feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:46] When I’m thinking about what Tuesday night could be like and the days and weeks after, I feel a considerable amount of anxiety regarding what will happen on the presidential level and frankly, whether there will be political violence egged on by or even committed by supporters of former President Donald Trump. It’s this weird mix because there’s a lot of work to do that’s not directly related to the presidential race. I mean, we’re a local podcast, you know, we’re not in a swing state. But there’s this sort of overhanging sort of cloud and like, what is the cloud? Is it like a storm? Is it a hurricane? I don’t know how far you want to take this analogy. I don’t know. We’ve also got a job to do and these elections on the state and local level are also very important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:30] Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like a lot of us in the newsroom sort of see Election Day as sort of a goal post. Like if we could just get to that day, we will make it through. But it really does feel like just the start of whatever happens next in many ways. I mean, have you all voted yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] I have voted. I dropped in my mail-in ballot at the library a couple of days ago. My partner is a first-time voter and he is not yet registered. But he will, I think, vote like in the last sort of stretch of the voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] Alan, have you voted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] I filled up my ballot the day I got it in the mail and then it’s been sitting on my desk ever since. So I guess I haven’t voted yet. I should probably grab that and drop it off at the library at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:20] Well, if you are like me and have not filled out your ballot yet and maybe need help doing so, make sure to check out Prop Fest. Just going to plug that right here. It’s a collaboration between The Bay and Bay Curious podcasts where we break down each of the ten statewide ballot propositions. It’s super helpful and we’ve gotten a lot of really great feedback. You can find that at kqed.org/prop fest. And while you’re at it, bookmark KQED’s very comprehensive voter guide, kqed.org/voterguide. And speaking of the election, let’s get into the stories that we brought today, starting with you, Alan and an update on the mayor’s race in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:10] Well, with six days left to vote, after a long, bruising campaign, after millions and millions of dollars spent, the frontrunner for the race for mayor of San Francisco is… nobody. It’s still a tossup. It’s really never been dominated by any one candidate this whole time. There have been some interesting shifts in the polls recently and in some campaign spending. But really, I think there’s still a path for any one of the top four major candidates to win this thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:04:39] Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit more about some of that polling? I mean, I feel like I’m getting a little bit of whiplash. One second, I’m seeing Lurie’s ahead and then I’m seeing Peskin ahead. And then I’m seeing actually, if you count ranked choice voting, someone else might be a front runner. Like do we have a sense at all of who might be edging forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:58] Yes. So just to recap, there are four major candidates here. The incumbent mayor, London Breed, the Levi Strauss, heir and CEO of the nonprofit Tipping Point, Daniel Lurie, former supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell, and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. Now, we’ve done plenty of episodes on their policy positions. You can go back and listen to those, but generally Breed, Lurie, and Farrell are sort of understood to be on the sort of moderate end of the political spectrum, while Aaron Peskin comes from the city’s traditionally progressive camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So generally what you’re seeing is polls showing that Daniel Lurie is rising in the polls and Aaron Peskin, too, I might add. One San Francisco Chronicle poll a couple of weeks back had London Breed with 24% of first place votes. But what’s interesting about that poll is it also accounted for first, second, third and fourth choices. And once you tabulate those, Daniel Lurie comes out ahead and wins over London Breed. Now, Lurie is the only one of the major candidates who does not have political experience. He’s also been pouring in a tremendous amount of money into this race. He’s actually donated more than $8 million of his own money, plus $1 million from his from his mother, Mimi Haas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] And just to remind folks, Alan, you are talking about the role that ranked choice voting plays in San Francisco. Can you remind people who aren’t familiar with ranked choice voting basically what’s happening here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:31] Sure. And, you know, not every city in the Bay Area has this. But basically, instead of just voting for one candidate, you can rank your candidates in order of preference. So when I got my ballot in the mail, the mayoral section was actually this huge grid where I could fill in bubbles for rank one, rank two, rank three, actually all the way to rank ten. If one candidate gets a majority of all first place votes, then they just win the election, right? I think it’s fair to say no candidate is going to win an outright majority. What that means is that who voters put as their second or even third choice matters a lot. And that’s where you see a real pathway for for any one of these candidates really to pull ahead and win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:12] Okay. So it looks like we’re seeing a possible path to victory for Daniel Lurie, possibly even Aaron Peskin. But what about Mark Farrell and London Breed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:25] Both of them definitely still have a shot at winning this. I’m by no means saying that that Lurie and Peskin are the most likely winners of the mayor’s race. London Breed is still the incumbent. Voters are more likely to know who she is just because she’s the incumbent. And Mark Farrell has been at the top of many polls leading up to this past month or so. Some of the changes in polling where you’ve seen Laurie and Peskin rise, I think you could attribute to a lot of attack ads against Breed and Farrell, but also some real missteps and even scandals among both of them. Questions about how Mark Farrell has been handling his campaign finances and then for London Breed, I mean, in addition to just being the mayor so when things feel like they’re not going well, they get put on the mayor, you know, there have been sort of conflict of interest and misspending allegations for one of her major programs called the Dream Keeper Initiative. So it’s possible that these stories and attack ads that spring from these stories have had a major impact on both of these candidates, but they both still have a real chance of winning for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:26] I mean, Alan, you’re a voter in San Francisco. What does it look like around town where you live lately? What are your YouTube ads looking like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:37] There are so many ads and certainly there have been signs around the neighborhood where I live for quite a while. But it does feel to me like it’s ramping up. Not just mailers, but on basically every streaming app. You know, I’m just trying to watch Veep, but then I get a radio ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:53] (Laughs) Why are you watching Veep right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:55] I think we’re all watching Veep right now (laughs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:01] Many, many text messages. In fact, I don’t know if you get those political text messages that say at the end, reply stop to opt out. And in my message history, it’s just me going, “stop, stop, stop, stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:09:12] And they never stop coming!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:13] There’s so many of them. But but what’s interesting, too, is, is the substance of them. What I’m seeing, and this is again, anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt, is an uptick in ads attacking Daniel Lurie, saying Lurie doesn’t have enough experience. He’s just a trust fund baby. He hasn’t had a real job. How can you trust this guy? I actually got one with Daniel Lurie where he’s wearing a suit that’s too big for him, you know, kind of implying that he’s like three kids in a trenchcoat or something. So I’m seeing a lot of ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[00:09:47] The other thing I will say is that there’s also been concern from moderate donors about Aaron Peskin because Peskin, being the lone candidate from the progressive camp, has also been rising in the polls. You know, in some of these more recent polls, Peskin is polling second or even first for many moderate groups like Grow S.F,. Together, S.F., you know, that have a lot of tech money behind them. Many of them either endorse, you know, Breed Lurie or Farrell or all three. What they all agree on is keep Aaron Peskin out of the mayor’s office. And so we’re seeing an uptick and a push from donors there because they sense and fear that, you know, this thing being a toss up, all of this infighting from moderate candidates could actually propel Aaron Peskin to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[00:10:32] I think another reason this is a tossup is that one other category that polls very high is undecided. A lot of people aren’t following the mayor’s race all year. In fact, most people aren’t following the mayor’s race all year. People are inundated with ads or maybe they’re just getting acquainted for the first time. Maybe some people don’t like all of their options. Maybe they feel overwhelmed by all of their options. So that’s another reason why I mean, I could not predict what’s going to happen in the mayor’s race. It really could go any which way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] Well, Alan, thank you so much for updating us on the status of the mayoral race in San Francisco. Definitely going to be one we will continue to watch on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:14] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sponsor message]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:37] And welcome back to The Bay’s October News Roundup where me and The Bay team talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Let’s get right back into it with producer Jessica Kariisa. What have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:11:50] Yeah, so around 2000 San Francisco hotel workers have been on strike and the strike actually just entered its sixth week. It’s pretty crazy because most strikes only last about a week. So for these people to be on strike this long, it’s a pretty big deal. And very recently, even more people joined the strike. I think about 400 hotel workers from the Palace Hotel, which is a very iconic hotel in the city. It’s part of a nationwide strike that’s been going on also for a little while now that includes over 4000 hotel workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] Yeah, I take the bus through downtown Market Street to get to work, and every now and then I see a strike going on outside. Why are so many hotel workers on strike right now, Jessica?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:39] Basically, during the pandemic, as you can imagine, people were not traveling. They were not going to hotels. And as a result of that financial loss, hotels cut staff, but they haven’t actually recovered that staff even as hotel traffic has gone back up. And so that’s led to, according to the Unite Here union, which covers these hospitality workers, that’s led to higher workloads. That’s led to, you know, less opportunities even for work. You know, things like automatic daily housecleaning have been like either eliminated or become optional for guests, which has limited the hours that people are working. And they also say that their wages just haven’t really matched up to the rising cost of living. So it’s all this big sort of stew that is still the effects of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] So what are their demands specifically? And is there one big contract that is being negotiated among all these workers across states? Or how does this work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:41] The union has different contracts with different hotels. So the hotels where people are striking include the Hilton, the Hyatt and the Marriott Hotels. So all across the nation, they all had different contracts that expired at different times. In San Francisco, their contract expired in August. And prior to that, there were months and months of negotiations where nothing really happened. Their biggest demand is, you know, an increase in wages. They also want the hotels to increase staffing back to pre-COVID levels. They want health care benefits, pensions, typical things that you would see in a union contract negotiation. But I think the big thing here is the return to pre-COVID staffing levels. Just because the amount of work that these hotel workers have taken on and this is like bellhops, you know, people who clean rooms, dishwashers, servers, bartenders, they say is just too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:40] So what is the argument from management then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] Management says that they have increased wages over the years. And they also insist that they are trying to cooperate with the union as best as they can. But in a lot of their public statements, they also really seem to be emphasizing, you know, minimizing disruptions for guests. Their focus is really, you know, with people not working and strikes happening outside of hotels, that they want to normalize the experience for their guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[00:15:11] But to that point, the union released a website that collects all the reviews of these hotels that have been striking, particularly the negative reviews that, you know, really emphasize what these hotels are missing by not having these workers there. And it’s been really interesting to see. You know, you’ll see stuff like “4/10 poor. The strike made it not enjoyable and room was filthy.” You know, or “showed up on day two of the strike. And the hotel gave no warning that I’d have to walk across the picket line.” So things like that, just to sort of really emphasize their cause. So, yeah, well, we’ll see what happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:54] And you mentioned this has been going on for six weeks now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:15:58] Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:58] What do we know about the status of negotiations between these workers and the hotels? And do we have a sense of when this could end?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:08] Yeah, So it seems to be a real stalemate. Representatives from the hotels are like, hey, we, you know, offered something up and you guys haven’t responded. One of the union rep said that the last contract that they received from Hyatt was back in August before the strike even started. And so they argue that the hotels have not been coming to the negotiation table since the strikes have started. So it’s really unclear when this will end. I think also, you know, the union is bolstered by a recent success they had last year in Southern California where they were able to, through intermittent striking, secure a huge pay raise for hotel workers down there. So, you know, it’s tough. It’s a financial risk for all these employees. But, you know, they have seen these kinds of strikes work. And so I think they’re just going to hold out until they get what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:05] Jessica, thanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:06] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:13] And just if I may bring it back to the election, we’re going to wrap this one up with an interesting story that I have been following out of the peninsula. Our colleague Ted Goldberg, who reports on oil refineries around the bay, reported last week on how the oil industry is spending thousands of dollars trying to influence a local city council race in the city of Belmont. And now you might be thinking, why Belmont? There’s no oil refinery there. Which is true. But some see this as an attempt to target Davina Hurt, who is running for city council in Belmont and who is also a top leader of the Bay Area Air Quality Management Board, which is the public agency that regulates air quality in the Bay Area. And that includes oil refineries and their impact on air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:13] Can you tell us a bit more about Davina Hurt and why the oil industry is interested in defeating her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:22] Hurt was one of 19 air district board members who in 2021 voted in favor of some of the most stringent refinery pollution controls in California history. And Hurt kind of stood out during this time because she was one of the first people from the air district board to publicly celebrate this historic vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:50] Interesting. So it’s like a bit of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:53] That is what she thinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:18:56] So when we say oil companies, the oil industry, who specifically are we talking about and what are they doing to try and influence this election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:06] So our colleague Ted Goldberg reported on essentially this super PAC that is funded by companies like Chevron, Phillips 66, Marathon Petroleum and PBF Energy, who have, through this super PAC, spent more than $23,000 supporting a Belmont City Council member named Tom McCune. And basically, this PAC has been sending pro McCune fliers out to people’s mailboxes in Belmont. What is interesting is that McCune, who I will mention, doesn’t even seem to have championed any oil industry interests and has actually said that clean air regulations is really important to him, said that he knew absolutely nothing about these fliers and didn’t approve them, didn’t know that they were going to people’s homes, until they basically started showing up. $23,000 isn’t a lot of money for a big oil company like Chevron, but it does kind of go a long way in a city like Belmont, which is a town of almost 28,000 people. I mean, it’s pretty small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:20:20] And the messaging in this case is not “vote for oil industry interests.” I mean, this is quite common, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:20:26] Yeah. There are many examples of the oil industry trying to influence local elections in this way in the Bay Area. I mean, in the last ten years, oil companies with refineries have spent even millions on city council races in cities like Richmond and Benicia. I mean, those are refinery towns. But this one is interesting because Belmont isn’t a refinery town. But I think we are sort of, as Ted Goldberg has been reporting on in the last couple of years, are really kind of at this turning point in the Bay Area’s relationship to the oil refineries that exist here. And we have seen over the last couple of years an attempt to really regulate them more. And this is just an interesting example of how the oil industry is trying to influence elections in this sort of new era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:21:31] And that is it for the Bay’s October news roundup. Jessica and Alan, thanks so much for joining me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:21:37] Thanks so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:21:38] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tannia Turcios Brizuela picked up a megaphone on a recent morning and joined the loud chants of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999702/san-francisco-hotel-workers-vote-yes-to-potential-strike\">striking workers\u003c/a> — “Contract now! Contract now!” — near the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> hotel where she has set up banquets for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her co-workers took turns drumming, stocking a sidewalk tent with water and snacks, and cooking pupusas and quesadillas to sustain the picket line during six-hour shifts, five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really difficult. Today it’s cold, it’s windy. I’d rather be inside working,” Turcios Brizuela said in Spanish outside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel. “But we’ve got to be strong and hold out for better benefits for us and our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005938/over-1500-san-francisco-hotel-workers-strike-in-2nd-walkout-this-month\">strike against three of the industry’s most iconic global brands\u003c/a> has expanded to include nearly 2,000 workers. Most are entering their sixth week on the picket line. The employees at five Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotels near Union Square want \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010145/were-going-to-fight-more-than-100-sf-marriott-workers-go-on-strike-joining-other-hotel-walkouts-across-city\">wage increases and pensions\u003c/a> that keep up with the cost of living. Additional demands include maintaining health benefits and the reversal of COVID-era staffing cuts that exacerbate workloads when there are surges of guests, according to the hospitality union Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout comes during a wave of strikes across the country by Unite Here members. In Honolulu, more than 1,800 Hilton staffers at Hawaii’s largest resort walked off the job more than a month ago. In Boston, a picket line by 600 workers has continued for over three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Turcios, the work stoppage poses additional challenges as her husband, Marcos, is also a Hilton employee on strike. The couple, who have two children ages 10 and 12, rely on financial aid from Unite Here Local 2, which amounts to just a fraction of their usual earnings. The family has dipped into savings to keep up with mortgage payments for their home in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s stressful to think how much longer we are going to be outside,” said Turcios, 40, who is originally from El Salvador. “We feel a little disappointed because we’ve been here for a month now, and there’s not much we’ve seen from the company of wanting to sit down, to negotiate, to offer us a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate statements, spokespeople for Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott emphasized their commitment to negotiating fair agreements and noted that their hotels are working to minimize strike-related disruptions for guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hilton makes every effort to maintain a cooperative and productive relationship with the unions that represent some of our Team Members, including Team Members at Hilton San Francisco Union Square,” a Hilton spokesperson said. “Our hotels have contingency plans in place to ensure operations continue to run as smoothly as possible, and hotel teams are engaging with guests to ensure they are taken care of during their stay with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers picket outside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Oct. 22, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hyatt touted a long history of cooperating with their employees’ unions. Michael D’Angelo, head of labor relations for Hyatt in the Americas, said the company is disappointed the walkout continues in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UNITE HERE Local 2 has not reached out to us to continue bargaining since the strike started,” he said. “We have offered competitive wages, health care and retirement benefits at the hotel that is on strike at this time, including an economic package that maintains no-cost health care for our colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizzy Tapia, president of Unite Here Local 2, countered that Hyatt’s proposed pay and benefits are insufficient, and the company has not yet responded to an offer made by the union in August before the strike, which included making pay increases contingent on hotel profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re ready to engage in real negotiations, they should reach out to us because we’re not going to waste our time if they’re just going to maintain the same — refusing to contribute to our health care plans and no real wage increases,” Tapia said, adding that the two parties remain far apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hotel occupancy rates in the city remain lower than in 2019. San Francisco collected $414 million in hotel tax revenue in the 2018-2019 fiscal year but just over two-thirds of that amount in 2022–2023, according to Ted Egan, the city’s chief economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forecast looks brighter next year, with a projected increase in visitors and gains in lodging and tourism spending, according to the nonprofit San Francisco Travel Association, the city’s official tourism marketing organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking hotel workers use pots, buckets and metallic barrels as drums beside an entrance to the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel as part of the hotel workers strike on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most strikes tend to last less than a week, in large part because workers sacrifice some or all of their pay during the work stoppage. The longer a labor disruption continues, the more pressure can grow for employers as well, said Johnnie Kallas, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/\">Labor Action Tracker\u003c/a>, documenting work stoppages of all sizes since 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers are going to have a difficult time finding replacement workers, paying for replacement workers, keeping operations going, potentially having some pressure from external stakeholders in the community or maybe potentially even from guests,” said Kallas, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12010145 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkersGetty1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strike activity has intensified as workers contend with wages that haven’t kept up with inflation. Meanwhile, low unemployment gives unions some leverage, as it’s harder for some industries to attract and retain workers, said John Logan, who directs labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large, successful walkouts, such as the United Auto Workers against three major manufacturers last fall, have also emboldened union members, he added. 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According to Unite Here Local 11, the intermittent strikes involving 10,000 workers secured average wage increases of $11.25 an hour over four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just a new sort of confidence within the labor movement at this moment,” Logan said. “You just get a sort of feeling that, ‘This is our moment to make up for losses of the past decade, particularly since the pandemic. So if we don’t strike now to get a big pay increase, then we might not have a better opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tannia Turcios Brizuela picked up a megaphone on a recent morning and joined the loud chants of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999702/san-francisco-hotel-workers-vote-yes-to-potential-strike\">striking workers\u003c/a> — “Contract now! Contract now!” — near the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> hotel where she has set up banquets for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her co-workers took turns drumming, stocking a sidewalk tent with water and snacks, and cooking pupusas and quesadillas to sustain the picket line during six-hour shifts, five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really difficult. Today it’s cold, it’s windy. I’d rather be inside working,” Turcios Brizuela said in Spanish outside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel. “But we’ve got to be strong and hold out for better benefits for us and our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005938/over-1500-san-francisco-hotel-workers-strike-in-2nd-walkout-this-month\">strike against three of the industry’s most iconic global brands\u003c/a> has expanded to include nearly 2,000 workers. Most are entering their sixth week on the picket line. The employees at five Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotels near Union Square want \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010145/were-going-to-fight-more-than-100-sf-marriott-workers-go-on-strike-joining-other-hotel-walkouts-across-city\">wage increases and pensions\u003c/a> that keep up with the cost of living. Additional demands include maintaining health benefits and the reversal of COVID-era staffing cuts that exacerbate workloads when there are surges of guests, according to the hospitality union Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout comes during a wave of strikes across the country by Unite Here members. In Honolulu, more than 1,800 Hilton staffers at Hawaii’s largest resort walked off the job more than a month ago. In Boston, a picket line by 600 workers has continued for over three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Turcios, the work stoppage poses additional challenges as her husband, Marcos, is also a Hilton employee on strike. The couple, who have two children ages 10 and 12, rely on financial aid from Unite Here Local 2, which amounts to just a fraction of their usual earnings. The family has dipped into savings to keep up with mortgage payments for their home in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s stressful to think how much longer we are going to be outside,” said Turcios, 40, who is originally from El Salvador. “We feel a little disappointed because we’ve been here for a month now, and there’s not much we’ve seen from the company of wanting to sit down, to negotiate, to offer us a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate statements, spokespeople for Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott emphasized their commitment to negotiating fair agreements and noted that their hotels are working to minimize strike-related disruptions for guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hilton makes every effort to maintain a cooperative and productive relationship with the unions that represent some of our Team Members, including Team Members at Hilton San Francisco Union Square,” a Hilton spokesperson said. “Our hotels have contingency plans in place to ensure operations continue to run as smoothly as possible, and hotel teams are engaging with guests to ensure they are taken care of during their stay with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers picket outside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel on Oct. 22, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hyatt touted a long history of cooperating with their employees’ unions. Michael D’Angelo, head of labor relations for Hyatt in the Americas, said the company is disappointed the walkout continues in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UNITE HERE Local 2 has not reached out to us to continue bargaining since the strike started,” he said. “We have offered competitive wages, health care and retirement benefits at the hotel that is on strike at this time, including an economic package that maintains no-cost health care for our colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizzy Tapia, president of Unite Here Local 2, countered that Hyatt’s proposed pay and benefits are insufficient, and the company has not yet responded to an offer made by the union in August before the strike, which included making pay increases contingent on hotel profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re ready to engage in real negotiations, they should reach out to us because we’re not going to waste our time if they’re just going to maintain the same — refusing to contribute to our health care plans and no real wage increases,” Tapia said, adding that the two parties remain far apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hotel occupancy rates in the city remain lower than in 2019. San Francisco collected $414 million in hotel tax revenue in the 2018-2019 fiscal year but just over two-thirds of that amount in 2022–2023, according to Ted Egan, the city’s chief economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forecast looks brighter next year, with a projected increase in visitors and gains in lodging and tourism spending, according to the nonprofit San Francisco Travel Association, the city’s official tourism marketing organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-HOTEL-STRIKE-ONE-MONTH-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking hotel workers use pots, buckets and metallic barrels as drums beside an entrance to the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel as part of the hotel workers strike on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most strikes tend to last less than a week, in large part because workers sacrifice some or all of their pay during the work stoppage. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 100 hotel workers at the Marriott Union Square in San Francisco went on strike on Friday, as employees and labor organizers continue to push for better wages and more affordable health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike, organized by the hospitality workers’ union UNITE HERE Local 2, follows ongoing labor actions at three other hotels in downtown San Francisco — including the Grand Hyatt, Hilton and Westin St. Francis — where workers represented by the union walked out last month after their contract expired. Additionally, workers at eight other Bay Area hotels not affiliated with Local 2 have also recently authorized strikes, but have not yet walked off the job, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005938/over-1500-san-francisco-hotel-workers-strike-in-2nd-walkout-this-month\">More than 1,600 hotel workers are striking in San Francisco alone\u003c/a>, along with thousands more at hotels in cities across the country, including Boston, Hawaii, and Seattle, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe in San Francisco. We want to keep business here,” said Lizzy Tapia, president of UNITE HERE Local 2. “These employers are not investing in San Francisco. These owners, these operators, they’re not investing in our city, all the things that make our city great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Union Square on Friday morning, the sounds of chanting strikers could be heard on almost every street corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic slammed the hospitality industry, hotel workers locally and nationwide have complained about severe staffing shortages and insufficient pay and benefits. And even as the tourism industry has slowly begun to rebound, wages for workers are failing to keep up with inflation, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of our members can’t afford to live in San Francisco,” Tapia said. “It’s kind of hard to imagine having such an important industry as the tourism industry without members who can actually afford to be here and be a part of the community here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some hotel employees are also concerned about the rising cost of health care. Workers on strike are demanding that hotel management provide employees with more comprehensive and affordable coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to keep the medical benefits because in the future, I want to be a mom, and I want to have insurance for me and my baby, for my safety and for my baby’s safety,” said Claudia Garrido, a phone operator at Marriott Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike, Garrido said “is difficult, but we need to do this together.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12005938,news_12002682,news_11999702\"]According to Garrido, hotel management has taken a step backward when it comes to providing for employees and protecting their well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pandemic-era staffing cuts have also contributed to the frustration hotel workers are feeling, the union said. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/press-releases/more-san-francisco-hotel-workers-join-ongoing-u-s-hotel-strikes/\">United Here press release\u003c/a>, staffing per occupied room went down 13% between 2019 and 2022, resulting in significantly heavier workloads for remaining employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Marriott said in an email that the corporation is “available to meet with the local union negotiating committee to reach an agreement that is fair to all parties.” They also noted that the Marriott Union Square is still open to customers and that protocols are in place to ensure that guests are cared for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abdul Sheikh, a Marriott employee working in the concierge lounge, said all the workers want is a fair contract. He added that the hotel can only run for so long without its staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to fight very hard, and we’re going to win,” Sheikh said. “There is no other way we’re going to leave … And I’m 100% sure sooner or later they’re going to sign the contract. There’s no other way for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction (Oct. 19): Workers at the eight other Bay Area hotels that are not affiliated with the union have not started their strikes yet, as we originally stated. They have just authorized the strikes.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Union Square on Friday morning, the sounds of chanting strikers could be heard on almost every street corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic slammed the hospitality industry, hotel workers locally and nationwide have complained about severe staffing shortages and insufficient pay and benefits. And even as the tourism industry has slowly begun to rebound, wages for workers are failing to keep up with inflation, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of our members can’t afford to live in San Francisco,” Tapia said. “It’s kind of hard to imagine having such an important industry as the tourism industry without members who can actually afford to be here and be a part of the community here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some hotel employees are also concerned about the rising cost of health care. Workers on strike are demanding that hotel management provide employees with more comprehensive and affordable coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to keep the medical benefits because in the future, I want to be a mom, and I want to have insurance for me and my baby, for my safety and for my baby’s safety,” said Claudia Garrido, a phone operator at Marriott Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike, Garrido said “is difficult, but we need to do this together.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to Garrido, hotel management has taken a step backward when it comes to providing for employees and protecting their well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pandemic-era staffing cuts have also contributed to the frustration hotel workers are feeling, the union said. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://unitehere.org/press-releases/more-san-francisco-hotel-workers-join-ongoing-u-s-hotel-strikes/\">United Here press release\u003c/a>, staffing per occupied room went down 13% between 2019 and 2022, resulting in significantly heavier workloads for remaining employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Marriott said in an email that the corporation is “available to meet with the local union negotiating committee to reach an agreement that is fair to all parties.” They also noted that the Marriott Union Square is still open to customers and that protocols are in place to ensure that guests are cared for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abdul Sheikh, a Marriott employee working in the concierge lounge, said all the workers want is a fair contract. He added that the hotel can only run for so long without its staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to fight very hard, and we’re going to win,” Sheikh said. “There is no other way we’re going to leave … And I’m 100% sure sooner or later they’re going to sign the contract. There’s no other way for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction (Oct. 19): Workers at the eight other Bay Area hotels that are not affiliated with the union have not started their strikes yet, as we originally stated. They have just authorized the strikes.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,500 hotel workers are on strike in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a>, marking the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002682/strikes-start-at-top-hotel-chains-as-housekeepers-seek-higher-wages-and-daily-room-cleaning-work\">second major hospitality walkout this month\u003c/a> as labor organizers push for higher wages and protest understaffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike, organized by the UNITE HERE Local 2 union representing bellhops, housekeepers, cooks and other hotel employees, started Sunday after months of challenging negotiations with Westin St. Francis, Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the Grand Hyatt San Francisco. The union’s previous contract with the hotels expired on Aug. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 40 workers marched in front of the Hilton on Monday morning, protesting high workloads and wages that don’t match the Bay Area’s high cost of living, as well as a need for affordable healthcare and pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hotel is not offering us a fair contract,” said Genevieve Obando, a housekeeper at the Hilton. “We want to see an improvement in our salary and to keep our insurance since insurance is very expensive. We are trying to fight for our rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999702/san-francisco-hotel-workers-vote-yes-to-potential-strike\">2,000 UNITE HERE hotel workers across the Bay Area\u003c/a> went on strike over Labor Day weekend, demanding higher wages and a reversal of pandemic-era service and staffing cuts in one of the largest national hotel workers’ walkouts since 2018. That walkout lasted three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/quality-of-life/2024/09/18/san-diego-city-council-throws-support-behind-striking-hilton-bayfront-hotel-workers\">700 employees are also currently on strike\u003c/a> at the Hilton Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005989\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,500 hotel workers in San Francisco are on strike, marking the Bay Area’s second major hospitality walkout this month. Organized by UNITE HERE Local 2, which represents bellhops, housekeepers, and cooks, the strike began Sunday after months of tough negotiations with Westin St. Francis, Hilton Union Square, and Grand Hyatt San Francisco. The union’s contract expired on Aug. 14. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the pandemic caused major disruptions to the hospitality industry, hotels and travel seem to be bouncing back. Although hotels haven’t quite reached pre-pandemic levels of occupancy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahla.com/news/hotels-will-pay-historic-wages-generate-record-level-tax-revenue-2024\">hoteliers can expect higher rates than last year\u003c/a>, according to data collected by the American Hotel and Lodging Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade organization also projected California’s hotels will pay employees a record of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahla.com/sites/default/files/Oxford.Wages_.and_.Salaries.pdf\">$15.3 billion in wages, salaries and other compensation\u003c/a> in 2024, up from $14.7 billion in 2023 and $13.3 billion in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, union members, hotel representatives and experts agree that the picture of post-pandemic recovery is more complicated. Wages have been growing slower than inflation, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor, meaning hotel workers’ pay has less buying power than it did previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers strike outside of the Hilton’s Union Square location in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Jacobs added, “companies significantly cut the number of workers, which created a big increase in workload for other employees. As people come back to hotels, the workloads remain much greater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has implications for the health and safety of hotel employees, said Lizzy Tapia, president of UNITE HERE Local 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really about respect,” Tapia said. “We’re fighting for our members who are at home, who no longer have full-time work, and also our members who are currently working and having to do double or triple the amount of work because their coworkers are not here to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12005037 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177834356485-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Hilton San Francisco Union Square said in a statement that the hotel is “committed to negotiating in good faith to reach fair and reasonable agreements that are beneficial to both our valued Team Members and to our hotel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lewin, the general manager of the Grand Hyatt, told KQED that business is not likely to make a full recovery for the next three to five years. He cited a lack of conventions in the area, a decrease in Asian tourists, and less business locally as fewer people commute to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “less than savory light” cast upon San Francisco’s reputation in recent years hasn’t helped either, he said. Despite those challenges, he said the company remains committed to negotiating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain ready to be at the table tomorrow,” Lewin said. “Our goal is a mutually satisfactory resolution and a contract that lasts for the next three to five years. And we’re ready to do that whenever the noise stops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union pointed out that Salesforce just held its annual Dreamforce conference — attended by 45,000 people — and that employees waited until it was over to strike. Now that the conference has ended, workers like Janet Wong, a housekeeper at the Hilton, said they will not return to work until better benefits are on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our last three-day strike was very strong. That’s why I’m not going to the table for bargaining, Wong said from the picket line. “That’s why we continue. We need to get our benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may be joined by thousands of hotel workers across the U.S. who have authorized strikes at Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Omni hotel properties where contract negotiations remain unresolved. Over 10,000 workers in Baltimore, Boston, Honolulu, Kauai, New Haven, San Diego, San Francisco, San José, San Mateo County and Seattle have already gone on strike, and strikes have also been authorized in Oakland and Sacramento, according to a union press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/gilarezada\">Gilare Zada\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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That walkout lasted three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/quality-of-life/2024/09/18/san-diego-city-council-throws-support-behind-striking-hilton-bayfront-hotel-workers\">700 employees are also currently on strike\u003c/a> at the Hilton Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005989\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,500 hotel workers in San Francisco are on strike, marking the Bay Area’s second major hospitality walkout this month. Organized by UNITE HERE Local 2, which represents bellhops, housekeepers, and cooks, the strike began Sunday after months of tough negotiations with Westin St. Francis, Hilton Union Square, and Grand Hyatt San Francisco. The union’s contract expired on Aug. 14. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the pandemic caused major disruptions to the hospitality industry, hotels and travel seem to be bouncing back. Although hotels haven’t quite reached pre-pandemic levels of occupancy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahla.com/news/hotels-will-pay-historic-wages-generate-record-level-tax-revenue-2024\">hoteliers can expect higher rates than last year\u003c/a>, according to data collected by the American Hotel and Lodging Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade organization also projected California’s hotels will pay employees a record of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ahla.com/sites/default/files/Oxford.Wages_.and_.Salaries.pdf\">$15.3 billion in wages, salaries and other compensation\u003c/a> in 2024, up from $14.7 billion in 2023 and $13.3 billion in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, union members, hotel representatives and experts agree that the picture of post-pandemic recovery is more complicated. Wages have been growing slower than inflation, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor, meaning hotel workers’ pay has less buying power than it did previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFHotelWorkers3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel workers strike outside of the Hilton’s Union Square location in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Jacobs added, “companies significantly cut the number of workers, which created a big increase in workload for other employees. 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"content": "\u003cp>Over 2,000 hotel workers in San Francisco and San Mateo are striking today, calling for higher wages and fair workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the UNITE HERE Local 2 union, including cooks, housekeepers and dishwashers at Grand Hyatt SF, Grand Hyatt SFO, Hilton Union Square, Palace Hotel, and the Westin St. Francis walked off the job today. They are protesting against workloads and wages they say aren’t enough to afford the cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m on strike because I struggle to pay my bills,” said Hannah Lin, a housekeeper at Hilton Union Square who has worked there for 10 years. “I used to work full-time every week, but now some weeks I get only two days or even no days. Even when it’s busy I might not work, because after COVID the hotel started ‘holding’ checkout rooms, which is when they wait to clean these dirty rooms instead of calling in more housekeepers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-day strike in comes after months of contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin said going on strike is a huge sacrifice, but she has to do it to provide for her family in the long run. “The hotel only respects power, so it’s time to show them our strength,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hotel workers are fighting for their economic lives,” said Liz Tapia, President of Unite Here Local 2 in a press release. “The hotel industry is making massive profits, but wages just aren’t enough to support our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hotel workers are also on strike in Boston, Mass. and Greenwich, Conn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unionized housekeepers have waged a fierce fight to restore \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-travel-united-states-b629be28a45ed4243ea9ee73439ad827\">automatic daily room cleaning\u003c/a> at major hotel chains, saying they have been saddled with unmanageable workloads, or in many cases, fewer hours and a decline in income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute over daily housekeeping has become emblematic of the frustration over \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-d3d00dd0adaf4d0192f97851538494f3\">working conditions\u003c/a> among hotel workers, who were thrown out of their jobs for months during pandemic-era shutdowns and returned to a changed industry grappling with chronic staffing shortages and evolving travel trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40,000 workers, represented by the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/harris-trump-union-tips-tax-endorsement-af3d6dc52ba4c407d04a7b9a47f0c46e\">UNITE HERE union\u003c/a>, have been locked in difficult contract negotiations with major hotel chains including Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Omni over demands for higher wages and a reversal of COVID-19-era service and staffing cuts. At least 15,000 workers have so far voted to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/strikes-los-angeles-associated-press-bellen-valle-brenden-gallagher-35b3eee685d54a96a8b6c8edbb6f9eab\">authorize strikes\u003c/a> this fall if no agreements are reached after contracts expire at hotels in 12 cities, from Honolulu to Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor unrest serves as a reminder of the COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate and lingering toll on low-wage women, especially Black and Hispanic women who are overrepresented in front-facing service jobs. Although women have largely returned to the workforce since bearing the brunt of pandemic-era furloughs — or dropping out to take on caregiving responsibilities — that recovery has masked a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/daycare-child-care-college-degree-moms-ac72f1227844eae0281305835e07273b\">gap in employment rates\u003c/a> between women with college degrees and those without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. hotel industry employs about 1.9 million people, some 196,000 fewer workers than in February 2019, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Hotel And Lodging Association says 80% of its member hotels report staffing shortages, and 50% cite housekeeping as their most critical hiring need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a workforce that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-travel-and-tourism-639f2a593016463a978bdf426f4b8307\">relies overwhelmingly on women of color\u003c/a>, many of them immigrants, and which skews older, according to UNITE HERE. Nearly 90% of building housekeepers are women, according to federal statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNITE HERE President Gwen Mills characterizes the contract negotiations as part of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/southern-california-hotel-workers-strike-fd02cf167dc6a400a026bf4a72036b0c\">long-standing battle\u003c/a> to secure family-sustaining compensation for service workers on par with more traditionally male-dominated industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hospitality work overall is undervalued, and it’s not a coincidence that it’s disproportionately women and people of color doing the work,” Mills said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is hoping to build on its \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-hotel-strike-contract-ratification-cce82d9fe9b0d2c3137929cc60f4b2f1\">recent success in southern California\u003c/a>, where it won significant wage hikes, increased employer contributions to pensions, and fair workload guarantees in a new contract with 34 hotels after engaging in repeated strikes. Under that contract, housekeepers at most hotels will earn $35 an hour by July 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Carey, the interim president and CEO of the hotel association, says hotels are doing all they can to attract workers. According to the association’s surveys, 86% of hoteliers have increased wages over the past six months and many have offered more flexibility with hours or expanded benefits. The association says wages for hotel workers have risen 26% since the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now is a fantastic time to be a hotel employee,” Carey said in an emailed statement to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hotel workers say the reality on the ground is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Mata, 61, a housekeeper at the W Hotel in San Francisco, said she earns $2,190 every two weeks if she gets to work full time. But some weeks, she only gets called in one or two days, forcing her to max out her credit card to pay for food and other expenses for her household, which includes her granddaughter and elderly mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to look for a new job a my age. I just have to keep the faith that we will work this out,” said Mata, whose hotel has so far not voted to authorized a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Nely Reinante said guests often tell her they don’t need their rooms cleaned because they don’t want her to work too hard. She said she seizes every opportunity to explain that turning down her services only makes more work for housekeepers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes if a guest refuses, she’ll suggest just taking out their trash or cleaning the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 5,000 workers at seven hotels in Honolulu, including the Hilton Hawaiian Village, have voted to authorize strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, UNITE HERE has won back automatic daily room cleaning in Honolulu and other cities, either through contract negotiations, grievance filings or local government ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issue is back on the table at many hotels where contracts are expiring. Mills said UNITE HERE is striving for tighter language to make it difficult for hotels to quietly encourage guests to opt out of daily cleaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Hilton said it was “committed to negotiating in good faith to reach fair and reasonable agreements.” Hyatt said it was “optimistic that mutually beneficial agreements can be reached without strikes.” Marriott and Omni did not return requests for comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. hotel industry has rebounded from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-d50b3f672e8522b7518b1b36f9e0eaa8\">the pandemic\u003c/a> despite average occupancy rates that remain shy of 2019 levels, largely due to higher room rates and record guest spending per room. Average revenue per available room, a key metric, is expected to reach a record high of $101.84 in 2024, according the hotel association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sherwyn, the director of the Cornell University Center for Innovative Hospitality Labor & Employment Relations, said UNITE HERE is a strong union but faces a tough fight over daily room cleaning because hotels consider reducing services part of a long-term strategy to cope with rising costs and the persistent labor shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hotels are saying the guests don’t want it, I can’t find the people and it’s a huge expense,” Sherwyn said. “That’s the battle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers bristle at what they consider a strategy that squeezes more out of them as they cope with erratic schedules and low pay. While unionized housekeepers tend to make higher wages, pay varies widely between cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandra Anderson, 53, makes $16.20 an hour as a housekeeper at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor, where workers have not yet voted to strike. She is hoping for a contract that will raise her hourly pay to $20 but says that the company came back with a counter offer that “felt like a slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson, who has been the sole breadwinner in her household since her husband went on dialysis, said they had to move to a smaller and more affordable house a year ago in part because she wasn’t able to get enough hours at her job. 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At least 15,000 workers have so far voted to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/strikes-los-angeles-associated-press-bellen-valle-brenden-gallagher-35b3eee685d54a96a8b6c8edbb6f9eab\">authorize strikes\u003c/a> this fall if no agreements are reached after contracts expire at hotels in 12 cities, from Honolulu to Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor unrest serves as a reminder of the COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate and lingering toll on low-wage women, especially Black and Hispanic women who are overrepresented in front-facing service jobs. Although women have largely returned to the workforce since bearing the brunt of pandemic-era furloughs — or dropping out to take on caregiving responsibilities — that recovery has masked a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/daycare-child-care-college-degree-moms-ac72f1227844eae0281305835e07273b\">gap in employment rates\u003c/a> between women with college degrees and those without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. hotel industry employs about 1.9 million people, some 196,000 fewer workers than in February 2019, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Hotel And Lodging Association says 80% of its member hotels report staffing shortages, and 50% cite housekeeping as their most critical hiring need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a workforce that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-travel-and-tourism-639f2a593016463a978bdf426f4b8307\">relies overwhelmingly on women of color\u003c/a>, many of them immigrants, and which skews older, according to UNITE HERE. 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