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I’m so proud that we stood up for ourselves, because everything we won will help me give my family a better life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a group of seven people in an office look over a contract\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFO restaurant workers vote on the new contract guaranteeing a $5 an hour raise, among other benefits. \u003ccite>(Courtesy UNITE HERE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The win \"shows the world that fast-food jobs can in fact be good, family-sustaining jobs, and it's all because workers had the courage to strike,\" said Anand Singh, president of UNITE HERE Local 2. \"After three years without a raise, SFO's fast-food workers were tired of working two or even three jobs just to survive — so they took their lives into their own hands and won a better future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to union officials, the strike included employees at 84 food and beverage outlets throughout SFO. The contract will expire in August 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Sept. 30:\u003c/strong> The roughly 1,000 food service workers at San Francisco International Airport who went on strike this week for higher pay and benefits will be voting on a contract Sunday that union leaders say “hits all the marks” for a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal, reached Wednesday night, just three days into the strike, showed the power of an organized workforce — a rarity in the U.S. food service industry — but it also showed the effect of some key pressure brought to bear by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, those close to the negotiations say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11923034,news_11855621\"]When the airport cooks, dishwashers, servers, bartenders and baristas of UNITE HERE Local 2 walked off the job Monday morning, contract negotiations had been underway for nine months but union officials said the two sides remained far apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt that there was no movement,” said Gabriela Mitose, 56, an airport bartender for almost 30 years who was a member of the negotiating team. “Our voices weren’t being heard. So we had to be loud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of the walkout inside SFO was swift, with most restaurants, coffee shops, bars and airport lounges closing entirely or operating only limited hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The airport restaurants can't function without the workers,” said Anand Singh, president of Local 2. “Striking is not an easy thing. But I think we were exacting a real toll on the employers that wasn't sustainable for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gabriela Mitose, SFO bartender, member of Local 2\"]'Our voices weren't being heard. So we had to be loud.'[/pullquote]At every terminal, workers marched at the curb, chanting and waving union signs reading “One Job Should Be Enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitose, who makes $15.10 per hour plus tips at the Lark Creek Grill, said that one job had not been enough for her to cover her mortgage payments. She worked a second job for many years, but it took a heavy toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you work two jobs for over 15 years, your health takes a really big hit,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Shocked and appalled'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The strike made headlines, and some members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors joined the picket lines this week. On Tuesday night, the supervisors called a hearing on the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials testified at the hearing that airport food service workers haven’t had a raise since 2018, and more than one-third of them hold down two or more jobs. Workers described sleeping in their cars between shifts and bathing in public restrooms, because their long commutes home would rob them of precious hours to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we listed our concerns to the Board of Supervisors, they looked pretty shocked and appalled,” said Mitose, who spoke at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members responded with outrage and noted that the city is the landlord for the restaurants who have leases to do business at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an embarrassment that the airport of the city and county of San Francisco treats workers like dirt,” declared Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who chairs the budget committee. “I’m going to start scrutinizing these leases like you’ve never seen before, and nothing’s getting past that committee until these workers are treated fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and others urged SFO Director Ivar Satero to take a stronger role in negotiations. And, after Local 2 officials described how a handful of new businesses were ignoring the SFO requirement to allow workers to vote on union membership, supervisors pressed Satero to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always enjoyed such strong relationships with the unions … I feel like we really got caught off guard by this whole issue,” admitted Satero, who vowed to be more vigilant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also pressured the group of 30 restaurant employers — who bargain jointly with Local 2 — to meet the needs of workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"people striking with signs outside an airport\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking food service workers with UNITE HERE Local 2 picket outside San Francisco International Airport on Mon., Sept. 26, 2022. They ended the strike Wednesday night after reaching a tentative deal with employers. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Restaurateur Kevin Westlye, who spoke on behalf of the employer group, said the owners are pinched by inflation. And he made a pitch for the airport to let the group raise menu prices higher than the current allowance to charge 12% above prevailing “street pricing” at city restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no issue with giving the employees more money, we have no issue with the union and we have no issue with the airport,” said Westlye. But, he added, “You’ve got us right now in an untenable vise grip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors encouraged the airport to meet the owners halfway on their inflation concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see absolutely no reason you guys can’t all just get in the room. The airport’s got something to give, your employer group’s got something to give ... Local 2 already gave a lot,” said Supervisor Aaron Peskin. “So why don’t you guys go sit down and work it out and we just want to see this strike finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than 24 hours later, a tentative deal was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitose, the bartender and Local 2 member, said she heard about it from a co-worker. She had been at the negotiations earlier Wednesday night but had to leave before they concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got the phone call at midnight,” she said. “We were so excited. It's just such a relief to know that you can go back to work and things will get better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'This is the workers' victory'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Neither SFO nor the restaurant group would comment on what happened after Tuesday’s hearing. But Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said the airport did agree to let menu prices go up, potentially breaking the logjam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know the details, but I do know that the airport is allowing the restaurants to collect some additional compensation for the workers on the checks that people are going to be paying,” he said. “So prices will go up at the airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman added, “This is a busy airport, the gateway to San Francisco. And the city general fund benefits from payments from the airport. So we need to not have labor unrest at this airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7757-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7757-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"a woman with a shirt that says 'one job should be enough'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7757-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7757-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7757-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7757-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7757-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7757-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking food service workers with UNITE HERE Local 2 picket outside San Francisco International Airport on Mon., Sept. 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Singh, the union president, would not reveal the details of the three-year contract before workers vote to ratify it on Sunday. But he said it includes “significant” raises and fully paid family health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very excited by this deal,” he said. “It hits all the marks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he credited the supervisors — who, he pointed out, rarely speak in unison on anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's no question that the Board of Supervisors had a real impact here. ... They were really shoulder to shoulder and unanimous in their support of the workers,” Singh said. But, he added, “At the end of the day, this is the workers' victory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitose was back at her job Thursday at the Lark Creek Grill in Terminal 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re open for business, and everybody's coming in with happy faces,” she said. “When you don’t have that extra stress about your paycheck, you come in with a better attitude. So you’re going to get way better service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The update to this story includes reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This victory is more than I ever dreamed of,\" said April Asfour, a cook at Boudin Bakery Café at SFO, in a statement released by UNITE HERE Local 2. \"I have six kids, and this raise will help me to support them. And with the health care that we won, I can cover all of them for free. I’m so proud that we stood up for ourselves, because everything we won will help me give my family a better life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a group of seven people in an office look over a contract\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_5798-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFO restaurant workers vote on the new contract guaranteeing a $5 an hour raise, among other benefits. \u003ccite>(Courtesy UNITE HERE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The win \"shows the world that fast-food jobs can in fact be good, family-sustaining jobs, and it's all because workers had the courage to strike,\" said Anand Singh, president of UNITE HERE Local 2. \"After three years without a raise, SFO's fast-food workers were tired of working two or even three jobs just to survive — so they took their lives into their own hands and won a better future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to union officials, the strike included employees at 84 food and beverage outlets throughout SFO. The contract will expire in August 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Sept. 30:\u003c/strong> The roughly 1,000 food service workers at San Francisco International Airport who went on strike this week for higher pay and benefits will be voting on a contract Sunday that union leaders say “hits all the marks” for a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal, reached Wednesday night, just three days into the strike, showed the power of an organized workforce — a rarity in the U.S. food service industry — but it also showed the effect of some key pressure brought to bear by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, those close to the negotiations say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At every terminal, workers marched at the curb, chanting and waving union signs reading “One Job Should Be Enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitose, who makes $15.10 per hour plus tips at the Lark Creek Grill, said that one job had not been enough for her to cover her mortgage payments. She worked a second job for many years, but it took a heavy toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you work two jobs for over 15 years, your health takes a really big hit,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Shocked and appalled'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The strike made headlines, and some members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors joined the picket lines this week. On Tuesday night, the supervisors called a hearing on the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials testified at the hearing that airport food service workers haven’t had a raise since 2018, and more than one-third of them hold down two or more jobs. Workers described sleeping in their cars between shifts and bathing in public restrooms, because their long commutes home would rob them of precious hours to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we listed our concerns to the Board of Supervisors, they looked pretty shocked and appalled,” said Mitose, who spoke at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members responded with outrage and noted that the city is the landlord for the restaurants who have leases to do business at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an embarrassment that the airport of the city and county of San Francisco treats workers like dirt,” declared Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who chairs the budget committee. “I’m going to start scrutinizing these leases like you’ve never seen before, and nothing’s getting past that committee until these workers are treated fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and others urged SFO Director Ivar Satero to take a stronger role in negotiations. And, after Local 2 officials described how a handful of new businesses were ignoring the SFO requirement to allow workers to vote on union membership, supervisors pressed Satero to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always enjoyed such strong relationships with the unions … I feel like we really got caught off guard by this whole issue,” admitted Satero, who vowed to be more vigilant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also pressured the group of 30 restaurant employers — who bargain jointly with Local 2 — to meet the needs of workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"people striking with signs outside an airport\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_7729-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking food service workers with UNITE HERE Local 2 picket outside San Francisco International Airport on Mon., Sept. 26, 2022. They ended the strike Wednesday night after reaching a tentative deal with employers. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Restaurateur Kevin Westlye, who spoke on behalf of the employer group, said the owners are pinched by inflation. And he made a pitch for the airport to let the group raise menu prices higher than the current allowance to charge 12% above prevailing “street pricing” at city restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no issue with giving the employees more money, we have no issue with the union and we have no issue with the airport,” said Westlye. But, he added, “You’ve got us right now in an untenable vise grip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors encouraged the airport to meet the owners halfway on their inflation concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see absolutely no reason you guys can’t all just get in the room. The airport’s got something to give, your employer group’s got something to give ... Local 2 already gave a lot,” said Supervisor Aaron Peskin. “So why don’t you guys go sit down and work it out and we just want to see this strike finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than 24 hours later, a tentative deal was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitose, the bartender and Local 2 member, said she heard about it from a co-worker. She had been at the negotiations earlier Wednesday night but had to leave before they concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got the phone call at midnight,” she said. “We were so excited. It's just such a relief to know that you can go back to work and things will get better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'This is the workers' victory'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Neither SFO nor the restaurant group would comment on what happened after Tuesday’s hearing. But Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said the airport did agree to let menu prices go up, potentially breaking the logjam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know the details, but I do know that the airport is allowing the restaurants to collect some additional compensation for the workers on the checks that people are going to be paying,” he said. “So prices will go up at the airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman added, “This is a busy airport, the gateway to San Francisco. And the city general fund benefits from payments from the airport. 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The protesters face a charge of obstructing streets and sidewalks and a $274 fine, Pollani said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Unite-Here-Protest-American-Airlines-Texas-800x454.jpg\" alt=\"Airline catering workers represented by the Unite Here union block an entrance to American Airlines' corporate headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas on Tuesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"454\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Unite-Here-Protest-American-Airlines-Texas-800x454.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Unite-Here-Protest-American-Airlines-Texas-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Unite-Here-Protest-American-Airlines-Texas-1020x579.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Unite-Here-Protest-American-Airlines-Texas-1200x681.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Unite-Here-Protest-American-Airlines-Texas.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Airline catering workers represented by the Unite Here union block an entrance to American Airlines’ corporate headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Unite Here Local 2)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I took arrest today because even though I load carts full of food and beverage for American Airlines flights, I’m uninsured and have to go to a free clinic,” Alvarez said in a union statement following his arrest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My company insurance is so expensive that I can’t afford it, and I don’t think that’s right. 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We remain committed to negotiating in good faith, and we hope that union members will act lawfully as they exercise their right to demonstrate or protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gate Gourmet issued a similar message: “Gate Gourmet continues to work in good faith with the union and federally appointed mediator to make improvements for our people across wages and benefits as we have in the past,” the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American Airlines said it hoped the two sides would come to a deal soon and said it expected that agreement would cost it more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe in the collective bargaining process, and so we are confident that LSG Sky Chefs and Unite Here will come to an agreement that increases pay and benefits for LSG’s employees and ensures LSG can continue to operate successfully,” the airline said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that a new contract will, ultimately, increase the costs to LSG Sky Chef’s customers, including American. 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Now it's time for every hotel to follow Marriott's lead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief statement, Marriott confirmed that it had reached an agreement and that \"we look forward to welcoming our associates back to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the contract is ratified, the workers are expected to return to their jobs on Wednesday, according to Singh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/travel/san-francisco-marriott-strike-over.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four-year deal\u003c/a>, housekeepers would get a gradual $4-an-hour wage increase and workers who deal directly with guests will get a GPS-enabled panic button to get help if they feel unsafe, among other changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley professor Harley Shaiken, who specializes in labor issues, says the contract is a win for Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wages, they went up. Benefits, particularly health care and pensions, improved. Workload was addressed in some new and effective ways,\" Shaiken said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract calls for workers who accuse a guest of sexual harassment to not have any contact with the guest. In cases that include credible reports of inappropriate sexual behavior, the hotel will evict a guest, according to Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At a time when unions have been largely on the defensive, this really counts as a major victory,\" Shaiken said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 60-day strike rallied the region's labor movement. The union received \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698707/san-francisco-mayor-jumps-into-marriott-hotel-labor-dispute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support from Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698425/s-f-supervisors-back-hotel-strikers-mayor-still-mum?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=kqednews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several members\u003c/a> of the Board of Supervisors, which held a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703249/striking-hotel-workers-vent-during-special-board-meeting-at-san-francisco-city-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special meeting\u003c/a> in early November to hear the workers' stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed and Supervisor Hillary Ronen applauded the deal Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this time of rising inequality, it is crucial that our workers are able to earn a fair wage that allows them to live and support their families in the increasingly expensive Bay Area,\" Breed said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was a really important fight for the future of San Francisco and I'm delighted that the parties have reached a settlement,\" Ronen said in a text message through her spokeswoman, Carolyn Goossen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said during the walkout that it was disappointed its workers chose to strike and emphasized that the seven hotels would keep operating. Days before the supervisors' hearing, Marriott CEO \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702796/marriott-ceo-slams-hotel-workers-union-refuses-to-attend-s-f-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Sorenson criticized\u003c/a> Unite Here, claiming it was more interested in coordinating a national labor action than in settling local contract issues at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walkouts by Unite Here in San Jose, Oakland and other cities around the country ended in recent weeks while the San Francisco picketing continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I attribute that to the fact that San Francisco enjoys one of the highest, richest standards in a contract of any other city in this country. It's because of our past successes that our contract is so expensive,\" Singh said, adding that health care costs in the region are higher than other urban markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement ends strikes at the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown, the Marriott Marquis, the Marriott Union Square, the Palace Hotel, the St. Regis, the W and the Westin St. Francis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout struck at the center of one of San Francisco's most lucrative industries: tourism. It not only made life inconvenient for some Marriott guests but it also led some organizations to postpone events at the company's hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travel and hotel industry groups hailed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're thankful that there is an announced settlement and that regular operations at the hotels involved will resume in the coming days,\" Kevin Carroll, executive director of the Hotel Council of San Francisco, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are of course happy that a tentative agreement has been reached so that the hotels and the workers can move forward,\" said Laurie Armstrong Gossy, a spokeswoman for San Francisco Travel, in an email before the ratification vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute also triggered potential scrutiny from state workplace regulators. Several workers hired to replace hotel employees, who walked off the job in San Francisco, filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708777/replacement-marriott-workers-say-they-werent-paid-file-wage-theft-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wage theft claims\u003c/a> with the California Labor Commissioner's Office, alleging the company that hired them neglected to pay them thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike represents the largest hotel labor dispute in San Francisco since workers were locked out of more than a dozen hotels in 2004, part of a weeks-long conflict that at one point involved then-Mayor Gavin Newsom briefly joining a picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said Unite Here Local 2 will now focus on setting strong contract language with other hotel companies in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because Marriott is the largest employer, it was important to engage them first, for them to set a pattern,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the union's contracts for major hotels in San Francisco with companies like Hilton, Hyatt and the Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) have expired, according to Singh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The standard has been set. We expect other employers will step and do right by their workers,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Hyatt said the hotel company and Unite Here have already come to agreements in other markets this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our colleagues are the heart of our business, and we respect their right to voice their opinions,\" said Michael D'Angelo, Hyatt vice president of labor relations. \"Hyatt hotels in San Francisco, like those across the country, offer competitive wages and benefits to our colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for IHG said the company looks forward to \"arriving at a mutually beneficial agreement\" with Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for Hilton have yet to comment.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Dec. 4, 2018 at 12:10 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An overwhelming majority of the nearly 2,500 hotel workers who have been striking against seven Marriott hotels in San Francisco for the last two months have voted to ratify a contract that ends their walkout, capping an end to a labor dispute that touched cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials announced Monday evening that the contract was ratified by a vote of 99.6 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote ends a strike by housekeepers, bartenders, bellmen and others represented by Unite Here Local 2 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696561/marriott-hotel-workers-in-san-francisco-walk-off-the-job\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">began Oct. 4\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really is a historic deal for these workers and our union,\" Unite Here Local 2 president Anand Singh said in an interview earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local 2 officials say the agreement, which was reached early Monday morning after a round of weekend talks, includes wage increases, improved job security protections and affordable health care coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This hard-fought contract sets a new and transformative standard for San Francisco's hotel industry,\" Singh said. \"During more than two months on strike, hotel workers' resolve never wavered and neither did the support and solidarity in our community. Now it's time for every hotel to follow Marriott's lead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief statement, Marriott confirmed that it had reached an agreement and that \"we look forward to welcoming our associates back to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the contract is ratified, the workers are expected to return to their jobs on Wednesday, according to Singh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/travel/san-francisco-marriott-strike-over.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four-year deal\u003c/a>, housekeepers would get a gradual $4-an-hour wage increase and workers who deal directly with guests will get a GPS-enabled panic button to get help if they feel unsafe, among other changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley professor Harley Shaiken, who specializes in labor issues, says the contract is a win for Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wages, they went up. Benefits, particularly health care and pensions, improved. Workload was addressed in some new and effective ways,\" Shaiken said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract calls for workers who accuse a guest of sexual harassment to not have any contact with the guest. In cases that include credible reports of inappropriate sexual behavior, the hotel will evict a guest, according to Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At a time when unions have been largely on the defensive, this really counts as a major victory,\" Shaiken said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 60-day strike rallied the region's labor movement. The union received \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698707/san-francisco-mayor-jumps-into-marriott-hotel-labor-dispute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support from Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698425/s-f-supervisors-back-hotel-strikers-mayor-still-mum?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=kqednews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several members\u003c/a> of the Board of Supervisors, which held a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703249/striking-hotel-workers-vent-during-special-board-meeting-at-san-francisco-city-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special meeting\u003c/a> in early November to hear the workers' stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed and Supervisor Hillary Ronen applauded the deal Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this time of rising inequality, it is crucial that our workers are able to earn a fair wage that allows them to live and support their families in the increasingly expensive Bay Area,\" Breed said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was a really important fight for the future of San Francisco and I'm delighted that the parties have reached a settlement,\" Ronen said in a text message through her spokeswoman, Carolyn Goossen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said during the walkout that it was disappointed its workers chose to strike and emphasized that the seven hotels would keep operating. Days before the supervisors' hearing, Marriott CEO \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702796/marriott-ceo-slams-hotel-workers-union-refuses-to-attend-s-f-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Sorenson criticized\u003c/a> Unite Here, claiming it was more interested in coordinating a national labor action than in settling local contract issues at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walkouts by Unite Here in San Jose, Oakland and other cities around the country ended in recent weeks while the San Francisco picketing continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I attribute that to the fact that San Francisco enjoys one of the highest, richest standards in a contract of any other city in this country. It's because of our past successes that our contract is so expensive,\" Singh said, adding that health care costs in the region are higher than other urban markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement ends strikes at the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown, the Marriott Marquis, the Marriott Union Square, the Palace Hotel, the St. Regis, the W and the Westin St. Francis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout struck at the center of one of San Francisco's most lucrative industries: tourism. It not only made life inconvenient for some Marriott guests but it also led some organizations to postpone events at the company's hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travel and hotel industry groups hailed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're thankful that there is an announced settlement and that regular operations at the hotels involved will resume in the coming days,\" Kevin Carroll, executive director of the Hotel Council of San Francisco, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are of course happy that a tentative agreement has been reached so that the hotels and the workers can move forward,\" said Laurie Armstrong Gossy, a spokeswoman for San Francisco Travel, in an email before the ratification vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute also triggered potential scrutiny from state workplace regulators. Several workers hired to replace hotel employees, who walked off the job in San Francisco, filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708777/replacement-marriott-workers-say-they-werent-paid-file-wage-theft-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wage theft claims\u003c/a> with the California Labor Commissioner's Office, alleging the company that hired them neglected to pay them thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike represents the largest hotel labor dispute in San Francisco since workers were locked out of more than a dozen hotels in 2004, part of a weeks-long conflict that at one point involved then-Mayor Gavin Newsom briefly joining a picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said Unite Here Local 2 will now focus on setting strong contract language with other hotel companies in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because Marriott is the largest employer, it was important to engage them first, for them to set a pattern,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the union's contracts for major hotels in San Francisco with companies like Hilton, Hyatt and the Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) have expired, according to Singh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The standard has been set. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Friday Oct. 5, 12:55 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 200 hotel workers employed at the Oakland Marriott City Center walked off the job Friday, joining more than 2,500 Marriott workers who went on strike in San Francisco and San Jose the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland workers are represented by Unite Here, the same union that represents Marriott employees who have walked off the job across the bay and in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11696618\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11696618\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-1200x735.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-960x588.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers strike outside the Marriott Marquis in downtown San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2018. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"As the cost of living skyrockets in Oakland and the hotel industry is booming, many hotel workers cannot afford to live in the city where they work,\" said Wei-Ling Huber, president of Unite Here Local 2850.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five years since Local 2850 workers' last contract, Marriott's revenues have increased and so have the Bay Area's rents, Huber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Workers' wages did not keep pace with that,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the local union's members have to hold several jobs to get by, according to Vernice Scott, a banquet server at the Oakland Marriott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott says she decided to walk off the job \"because I had to let the largest hotel company in the world know that they have plenty of money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have more to give,\" Scott said. \"I believe they see us as numbers and not as human beings with needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Unite Here Local 2 announced Thursday morning that the employees walked off the job about two weeks after they overwhelmingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691690/san-francisco-marriott-workers-vote-on-whether-to-authorize-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted to authorize\u003c/a> the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials have said they want higher wages for the company's housekeepers, kitchen workers, bartenders and bellmen who work for one of the largest hotel employers in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unacceptable that hotel workers struggle to survive while Marriott rakes in billions,\" Unite Here Local 2 President Anand Singh said in a statement Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our strike is sure to disrupt the lucrative hospitality industry — but it needs disrupting,\" Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Correa, a banquet server picketing outside the Marriott Marquis, said she and other workers can barely get by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are squeezing us dry,\" Correa said. \"We have to work two and three jobs to sustain a livable life here in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/michelleewiley/status/1047906973415424005\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nix Guirre is a butler at the St Regis. She said she’s striking because with wages as they are at Marriott hotels, she can’t afford to save for her future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They expect us to provide five-star service. We serve a lot of politicians and celebrities and athletes. But why should they expect us to provide the five-star service if we, ourselves, are suffering,\" Guirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11696619\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11696619\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-800x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-1200x868.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-960x695.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-375x271.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2-520x376.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike2.jpg 1874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nix Guirre, 27, is a butler at the St. Regis in San Francisco, and she says she’s striking because with wages as they are at Marriott hotels, she can’t afford to save for her future. Close to 2,500 hotel workers at seven Marriott hotels in San Francisco went on strike on Oct. 4. 2018, according to Unite Here Local 2. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workers for Marriott have walked off the job in San Jose and Boston. Unionized hotel employees of the company in Oakland, San Diego, Seattle, Detroit, Honolulu and Maui have also authorized strikes, according to Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco strike has no time limit, according to a union organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company emphasizes that its hotels will keep operating during the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are disappointed that Unite Here has chosen to resort to a strike at this time. During the strike our hotels are open, and we stand ready to provide excellent service to our guests,\" Marriott International said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we respect our associates' rights to participate in this work stoppage, we also welcome any associate who chooses to continue to work,\" the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials in Oakland and San Francisco have not gotten involved in the hotel labor talks, according to union officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayors London Breed, Libby Schaaf and Sam Liccardo have yet to comment on the strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with associations representing the city's tourism and hotel industries, San Francisco Travel and the Hotel Council of San Francisco declined to comment on the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for one of the region's leading business groups, the Bay Area Council, said he hoped for a speedy resolution to the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tourism and hospitality industry is a major economic driver for San Francisco and the region,\" said the council's Rufus Jeffris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not just the hotel workers and the hotels that get hurt. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Friday Oct. 5, 12:55 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 200 hotel workers employed at the Oakland Marriott City Center walked off the job Friday, joining more than 2,500 Marriott workers who went on strike in San Francisco and San Jose the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland workers are represented by Unite Here, the same union that represents Marriott employees who have walked off the job across the bay and in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11696618\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11696618\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-1200x735.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-960x588.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/sf-strike1-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers strike outside the Marriott Marquis in downtown San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2018. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"As the cost of living skyrockets in Oakland and the hotel industry is booming, many hotel workers cannot afford to live in the city where they work,\" said Wei-Ling Huber, president of Unite Here Local 2850.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five years since Local 2850 workers' last contract, Marriott's revenues have increased and so have the Bay Area's rents, Huber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Workers' wages did not keep pace with that,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the local union's members have to hold several jobs to get by, according to Vernice Scott, a banquet server at the Oakland Marriott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott says she decided to walk off the job \"because I had to let the largest hotel company in the world know that they have plenty of money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have more to give,\" Scott said. \"I believe they see us as numbers and not as human beings with needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Unite Here Local 2 announced Thursday morning that the employees walked off the job about two weeks after they overwhelmingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691690/san-francisco-marriott-workers-vote-on-whether-to-authorize-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted to authorize\u003c/a> the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials have said they want higher wages for the company's housekeepers, kitchen workers, bartenders and bellmen who work for one of the largest hotel employers in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unacceptable that hotel workers struggle to survive while Marriott rakes in billions,\" Unite Here Local 2 President Anand Singh said in a statement Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our strike is sure to disrupt the lucrative hospitality industry — but it needs disrupting,\" Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Correa, a banquet server picketing outside the Marriott Marquis, said she and other workers can barely get by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are squeezing us dry,\" Correa said. \"We have to work two and three jobs to sustain a livable life here in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the last two years, Candida Kevorkian says she has gone to the emergency room three times from the stress of her job at San Francisco's Westin St. Francis Hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she is run ragged doing the work of two people. And she says she's not paid enough to stay in her South San Francisco home without help from her son and his family, who moved in to share her ever-rising rent payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevorkian is the p.m. housekeeping supervisor at the St. Francis, a luxury hotel owned by Marriott, and one of 7,800 unionized hospitality workers voting this week on whether to authorize a strike against the big hotel chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their contracts expired and negotiations ongoing, the Unite Here union workers will hold authorization votes in San Francisco, Boston, Honolulu and Maui.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter what, “We will fight until we get a fair contract signed,” says Kevorkian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing the union's slogan for its Marriott campaign, she adds: “One job should be enough to pay the bills, to put food on the table, to pay the rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the nearly 2,300 housekeepers, dishwashers, servers, bartenders, cooks and bellmen at seven Marriott-owned hotels -- the St. Francis, the W, the Marriott Union Square, the Palace, the Marriott Marquis, the Courtyard San Francisco Downtown and the St. Regis -- will take part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a union versus industry issue,” says Anand Singh, president of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitehere2.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unite Here Local 2\u003c/a>. “It’s about the workers who make up the fabric of this city standing up and fighting for what they deserve. What they’re asking for is their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s 25 million annual visitors contribute well over \u003ca href=\"https://sftravel.ent.box.com/s/3oq7bqy1vj6j32catxluhl4ltagydnmx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$9 billion\u003c/a> to the economy, the San Francisco Travel Association says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Unite Here, Local 2 workers are working at Marriott-operated hotels representing 15 percent of San Francisco’s 33,000 hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company hasn’t taken us seriously enough yet,” says Singh. ”It’s unconscionable that the workers that make the industry tick would struggle to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median income of a Local 2 housekeeper is $44,000, says Unite Here. That's low in a region where the federal government recently said a family of four earning as much as $117,400 could be \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/elist/2018-apr_10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">classified\u003c/a> as \"low-income.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marriott International said in a statement last week that it has conducted good faith negotiations with the union and that it is still \"hopeful that we will reach an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement without any strike activity.\" The company said the hotels will continue to operate even in the event of a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last major hotel strike in San Francisco took place in September 2004. Back then, Unite Here leaders called for a two-week strike at four hotels. In response, management at those hotels and 10 other unionized hotels locked workers out in a standoff that lasted two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sides eventually agreed on a contract in 2006. It granted workers higher wages, better pensions and full health care benefits, according to Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevorkian says a major issue is her team's workload. She manages as many as seven housekeepers, who together clean more than 100 rooms a night. That's too many rooms for too few workers in too short a time, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like they’re testing how far they can go,” says Kevorkian. “I’ve worked as a manager for 11 years, and I’ve never seen that craziness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help cope with the stress, Kevorkian says, she takes an anxiety medication her doctors prescribed to get through her workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My doctor told me to quit my job, but it’s not so easy,” she said. “I’m the backbone of my house.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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