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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027153/uc-workers-vote-to-strike-amid-federal-funding-threats\">University of California\u003c/a> health care, research and technical employees began a multiday strike Wednesday, disrupting daily operations at UC campuses, hospitals and laboratories after contract negotiations with the university reached an impasse early last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 50,000 UC workers represented by the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119 and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 could walk out this week over top union concerns such as low wages and severe understaffing, which the university disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, about 6,000 people represented by AFSCME joined the picket line, according to union representatives. At UC Berkeley, hundreds of workers from both labor groups were joined by students and community members as they marched through campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Lee, a shuttle driver at UC San Francisco and AFSCME executive board member, said she decided to strike because of the ongoing affordability crisis. Lee said workers need better compensation so they can keep up with increases in housing and health care costs. She believes the university has the funds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee pointed out that the university increased compensation for top executives last year while refusing to pay its service and patient care workers enough money to afford housing near UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patient care and service workers in the UC system left because the university is not invested in taking care of them or really prioritizing their well-being,” said Liz Perlman, executive director of AFSCME Local 3299, which represents more than 30,000 UC employees statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPTE Local 9119, which represents approximately 20,000 workers, authorized the strike earlier this month with 98% approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contract negotiations between the two unions and UC — one of the state’s largest employers with over 200,000 workers — began months ago, but no agreements have been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university offered UPTE a \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/upte/\">5% wage increase\u003c/a> starting July 1, 2025, followed by a 3% raise both in 2026 and 2027. Its offer for AFSCME included \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/afscme/\">raises of 5% in 2025\u003c/a>, 4% in 2026, and 3% in 2027, 2028 and 2029. The unions have said the proposals are insufficient and suggested wage increases do not accurately reflect the increased cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028885 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119 and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 strike at the UC Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, more than 13,000 UC patient care and service workers have resigned from their posts, according to a Tuesday press release from AFSCME. Despite the invaluable services UC workers provide to the university, they’re dealing with a 10% inflationary cut to their real wages, Perlman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many employees are struggling to keep up with rising housing and health care costs, forcing some to sleep in their cars or endure hours-long commutes just to continue working at the university, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives and UC employees have also expressed frustration with what they say are pervasive staffing shortages at many of the university’s medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much demand in the hospital and not enough staff to address patient needs… so patients are staying longer,” Shawn Singh, a nurse case manager at UCSF, said. “It just really creates the recipe for burnout, moral distress and poor quality in patient care within the hospital system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said health care workers and technicians, expected to handle an exorbitant number of responsibilities, are being stretched thin. It’s starting to harm their patients, which is why the employees decided to go on strike, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028926 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Roberts, a medical interpreter at UCSF and other members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119 and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 strike at the UC Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarah Roberts, a Spanish medical interpreter at UCSF Medical Center, is one of the thousands of striking medical workers. She said her department has been cut in half despite the demand for language interpretation services at UC facilities staying consistent. Roberts said discharging patients after serious procedures without a language interpreter leads to more medical complications and higher readmittance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see patients that should be getting the services of a qualified in-person medical interpreter not getting that, and their care is suffering because of it,” she said. “I am completely burnt out. I don’t know how much longer I can even stay here if this continues to be the way the university wants to do things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2023, UC Chief Financial Officer Nathan Brostrom told the Board of Regents that vacancy staff rates have tripled since the pandemic, but the university is arguing the opposite. Heather Hansen, a spokesperson with the UC Office of the President, said university data indicates that the headcount of UPTE members has increased and turnover rates are flattening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no truth to the claim that we have a vacancy issue,” Hansen said. “They want to demand we freeze positions and have them set aside for union members in perpetuity, but that would severely limit our ability to adapt to changing operational needs and unforeseen consequences such as a pandemic.”[aside postID=news_12028309 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-12-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen said the university is disappointed in the two unions for deciding to strike, but she said the UC is ready to resolve a contract with both unions. The university has plans to bring in contract workers to minimize disruptions to patients, students and school operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the parties agreed that dozens of employees essential to health and safety operations will not participate in the strike. The UC withdrew its request to the California Public Employment Relation Board for a court injunction against the unions, according to Felix De La Torre, general counsel for the PERB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both UPTE Local 9119 and AFSCME Local 3299 have accused the university of engaging in unfair labor practices before state regulators, including for an alleged crackdown on free speech, which the university denies. The PERB is investigating the charges, and Hansen said the process could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of our responsibility to our patients, it’s important that we are able to speak out when we see things that are detrimental to the quality of that care,” said Michael McGlenn, a clinical psychologist at UC San Diego. “The UC has moved to restrict our ability to speak out and advocate for our patient… Our providers care too much about the folks that we serve to be silenced and we’re not going to keep our heads down any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor action comes as the federal government and the National Institutes of Health threaten to cut funding for biomedical and public research at universities and research facilities across the country. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Massachusetts placed a temporary block on the cuts, which the university said would amount to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">California and several other states filed suit\u003c/a>. The pause was extended last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers with UPTE Local 9119 will be on strike through Friday, and those represented by AFSCME Local 3229 will be on strike through Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She believes the university has the funds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee pointed out that the university increased compensation for top executives last year while refusing to pay its service and patient care workers enough money to afford housing near UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patient care and service workers in the UC system left because the university is not invested in taking care of them or really prioritizing their well-being,” said Liz Perlman, executive director of AFSCME Local 3299, which represents more than 30,000 UC employees statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPTE Local 9119, which represents approximately 20,000 workers, authorized the strike earlier this month with 98% approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contract negotiations between the two unions and UC — one of the state’s largest employers with over 200,000 workers — began months ago, but no agreements have been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university offered UPTE a \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/upte/\">5% wage increase\u003c/a> starting July 1, 2025, followed by a 3% raise both in 2026 and 2027. Its offer for AFSCME included \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/afscme/\">raises of 5% in 2025\u003c/a>, 4% in 2026, and 3% in 2027, 2028 and 2029. The unions have said the proposals are insufficient and suggested wage increases do not accurately reflect the increased cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028885 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119 and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 strike at the UC Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, more than 13,000 UC patient care and service workers have resigned from their posts, according to a Tuesday press release from AFSCME. Despite the invaluable services UC workers provide to the university, they’re dealing with a 10% inflationary cut to their real wages, Perlman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many employees are struggling to keep up with rising housing and health care costs, forcing some to sleep in their cars or endure hours-long commutes just to continue working at the university, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives and UC employees have also expressed frustration with what they say are pervasive staffing shortages at many of the university’s medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much demand in the hospital and not enough staff to address patient needs… so patients are staying longer,” Shawn Singh, a nurse case manager at UCSF, said. “It just really creates the recipe for burnout, moral distress and poor quality in patient care within the hospital system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said health care workers and technicians, expected to handle an exorbitant number of responsibilities, are being stretched thin. 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She said her department has been cut in half despite the demand for language interpretation services at UC facilities staying consistent. Roberts said discharging patients after serious procedures without a language interpreter leads to more medical complications and higher readmittance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see patients that should be getting the services of a qualified in-person medical interpreter not getting that, and their care is suffering because of it,” she said. “I am completely burnt out. I don’t know how much longer I can even stay here if this continues to be the way the university wants to do things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2023, UC Chief Financial Officer Nathan Brostrom told the Board of Regents that vacancy staff rates have tripled since the pandemic, but the university is arguing the opposite. 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They aren’t going to make us give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 500 Marriott Marquis workers join nearly 2,000 employees across five other Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotels around Union Square who have\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011319/sf-hotel-worker-strike-enters-sixth-week-no-deal-in-sight\"> been on strike since Sept. 22\u003c/a>, demanding better from three of the largest hotel chains in the city. A steady stream of strikers has circled the entrances of multiple iconic San Francisco hotels, rain or shine, banging drums, chanting through megaphones, and trading off cooking meals for picketers for more than 70 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waechter said that the strike was spurred by cuts the hotels have been trying to make since workers’ contracts ended in August. 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The Palace Hotel’s annual afternoon tea with Santa will be affected, Waechter said, since some servers are striking, and out-of-town visitors coming to ice skate at Union Square or peruse Macy’s flagship store — possibly during its final festive season — will have service impacts at many of their usual hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marriott’s St. Regis and W Hotels in the city also authorized strikes last week and could join the picket line at any time. If they do, it’ll be one of the largest hotel worker strikes San Francisco has had in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waechter said that’s because the stakes are so high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “not just the futures of these 2,500 workers who are on strike, but also what the future of San Francisco is going to be,” Waechter said. “How do you approach a downturn in a city … are you going to cut and run, or are you going to double down and invest in a recovery that ultimately will profit everyone?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">incoming Trump administration\u003c/a> will likely impact federal workplace enforcement priorities in California and other states and unwind the Biden administration’s efforts to extend employee protections to millions more people in the U.S., according to several experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Labor has long aimed to ensure fair pay and safe working conditions for low-wage earners. The agency’s current leader, Julie Su, a former California labor secretary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984268/us-department-of-labor-hails-expanded-protections-for-h-2a-farmworkers-in-santa-rosa\">has focused resources\u003c/a> to prioritize protecting those who are most vulnerable to exploitation, including the immigrant workforce and migrant children who come to the U.S. without their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law protects workers, regardless of their immigration status. Judy Conti, government affairs director at the National Employment Law Project, a worker advocacy group, expects the Department of Labor’s focus to shift under the administration of a president-elect who campaigned on deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. Tom Homan, Trump’s pick for border czar, plans for immigration agents to conduct \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/latino/4984064-trump-administration-workplace-raids/\">more workplace raids\u003c/a> as part of that crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how hostile they are to immigrant workers and just downright disrespectful and disdainful,” said Conti, who has followed labor enforcement and the low-wage workforce for nearly three decades. “So I think you’ll probably see a big change there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the country’s largest undocumented workforce, with about 1.4 million people primarily working in the construction, agriculture and service industries as of 2022, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/#:~:text=The%20six%20states%20with%20the%20largest%20unauthorized,*%20New%20Jersey%20(475%2C000)%20*%20Illinois%20(400%2C000)\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a>. Nationwide, an estimated 8.3 million workers were unauthorized immigrants that year, about 5% of the total workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former president Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Labor Department, which has yet to be announced, will reveal more about the administration’s direction and priorities for the agency. Su, the acting secretary, will lose her job on Jan. 20. Her confirmation to the secretary post was stalled by Republicans in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999284\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/farmlabor20120427_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/farmlabor20120427_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/farmlabor20120427_qed-800x438.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/farmlabor20120427_qed-1020x558.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/farmlabor20120427_qed-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/farmlabor20120427_qed-1536x840.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/farmlabor20120427_qed-1920x1050.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers harvest strawberries at a farm in Carlsbad, California, on April 28, 2006. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Su declined a KQED interview request through her office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New leadership, especially a more pro-business one, will likely move to rescind or weaken some of the department’s recent regulations facing legal challenges from industry groups. One rule will make an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/explaining-the-department-of-labors-new-overtime-rule-that-will-benefit-4-3-million-workers/\">4.3 million\u003c/a> more salaried employees eligible to \u003ca href=\"https://blog.dol.gov/2024/04/23/what-the-new-overtime-rule-means-for-workers#:~:text=The%20department's%20final%20rule%2C%20which,how%20they'll%20be%20calculated.\">receive extra overtime pay\u003c/a> after it goes fully into effect next year. Another \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240109-1\">makes it harder\u003c/a> for employers to classify workers as independent contractors, who are often cheaper because they are not covered by minimum wage and workplace safety requirements, among other laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul DeCamp, an attorney who ran the wage and hour division under President George W. 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And when they are misclassified as independent contractors, they lose out on that even more,” said Sanders, who directs government affairs and advocacy at the liberal Economic Policy Institute. “It’s pretty safe to say that we’re expecting this new administration to be a disaster for workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Labor investigates employers that cheat and exploit employees, unfairly competing with law-abiding businesses. The agency’s commitment to upholding worker rights has remained steady regardless of what party is in power, DeCamp said. However, the scope of some protections may differ, with Democratic administrations generally applying laws more broadly, DeCamp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014403 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpDisasterAidAP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He would not be surprised if a second Trump administration curtailed who qualifies for overtime pay when working more than 40 hours a week and reinstated a previous Trump-era rule that is less strict on which workers qualify as independent contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve already got a rule they like,” DeCamp, who represents and advises businesses at the law firm Epstein, Becker, Green, said. “I don’t think they need to go back to square one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, worker protections on the books against wage theft or exploitative child labor are regarded as stronger than federal laws. 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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. 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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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