Workers were picketing and chanting outside yet another downtown San Francisco hotel Monday, a day after about 500 Marriott Marquis employees walked off the job to join what has become one of the largest hotel labor actions in The City in the last two decades.
The latest addition brought the total number of striking workers to 2,500, with noisy picket lines in front of a half-dozen big and iconic hotels affiliated with the Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott chains, including the Grand Hyatt San Francisco , Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Marriott Union Square, Palace Hotel and Westin St. Francis.
“We're ready to negotiate with them, but we’re also ready to take the fight to the street,” said Santamaria, who, like many of the other strikers, was wearing a red plastic poncho to ward off the rain with the words “UNITE HERE!” emblazoned on the front. Ex // Top Stories ‘American Sublime,’ new SFMOMA exhibit, is an American elegy Churning beneath the surface of the exhibition is a distinct tension around the artist’s vision of Black America and the country’s reality, writes Max Blue
They are at odds with management over wages, proposed changes to health-care benefits and union demands that hotels reverse COVID-19-era staff cuts that workers say remain in effect. In August, workers offered to forgo most guaranteed wage increases for bonuses tied to future hotel profits if the hotels agreed to “Bet on SF” by making investments like reopening restaurants that bring foot traffic downtown and staffing up with bellmen and doormen who can serve as eyes on the street.
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