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Hotel Lockout Ends Saturday morning, in negotiations at Mayor Gavin Newsom's
office, the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group agreed to end the
lockout....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 1:16pm PST
Hotel Lockout Over For Now; Community Solidarity Action on 11/20 Lock-out over... Workers and hotel management enter cooling off period... 11/20 Action to Support Hotel Workers......
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:18am PST
Kaiser Permanente, Chinese Hospital and PacifiCare Extend Health Coverage for Locked-Out W With 4,000 workers facing an end to their medical benefits due to the hotel companies' lockout, Chinese Community Health Plan and PacifiCare have joined Kaiser Permanente in announcing that they will continue medical coverage through January 31st, 2005....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 9:41am PST
Hotel workers pick up the pace in Los Angeles and San Francisco Leaders from UNITE HERE Local 11 and officials from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor announced Nov. 12 a boycott of nine upscale hotels, members of the Los Angeles Hotel Employers’ Council. The hotels include the Biltmore, Hyatt Regency, Beverly Wilshire, Westin Bonaventure, Wilshire Grand, St. Regis, Sheraton Universal, Hyatt West Hollywood and Century Plaza.
A Nov. 11 community meeting at the UNITE union hall brought together community and union leaders to help plan strategy fo...
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:02pm PST
Union isolates locked-out San Francisco hotel workers Hotel workers at 14 San Francisco luxury hotels are in the sixth week of a lockout that began on October 1. The action by the hotels was in response to a strike launched September 29 by1,400 members of Local 2 of the Union of Needle Trades Industrial and Textile Employees-Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (UNITE HERE) against the Hilton, Argent, Mark Hopkins and Crowne Plaza hotels....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:00pm PST
How Hotel Workers Can Win 
How to Win!
This struggle cannot be won if scabs are allowed to cross the picket line every day of the week. Hotel owners will have little interest in making concessions as long as their profits keep pouring in....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 5:26pm PST
How to Win the Hotel Strike This struggle cannot be won if scabs are allowed to cross the picket line
every day of the week. Hotel owners will have little interest in making
concessions as long as their profits keep pouring in....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 3:14pm PST
Hotel Workers Rally & March The Million Worker March Committee has initiated a call for a RALLY & MARCH to support the SF locked out hotel workers for this Saturday, November 20. Gather at 11:00 AM in Union Square....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 1:22pm PST
Jobs With Justice Organizing Meeting - 11/17 JOBS WITH JUSTICE!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 10:47am PST
Revolution @ THe Palace Hotel & Come to the Flying picketl (video/quicktime 24.0MB) On Saturday, November 13 the Garden Court at the Shereton Palace was transformed into the HAPSBURG IMPERIAL COURT as the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra holds its gala auction benefit, VIENNA GLORIOSA. Socialite guests arrived for the caviar bar. They were in formal attaire and period costume. Altough the Orchestra honored the picket line, the bousuisis still attened.
Locked out Local 2 Banquet waiters who have worked this event in past years gave the guests the welcome they deserved. th...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 4:11pm PST
UC Bargaining Committee Hears from Workers, Students, Politicians and Community Members (audio/mpeg 1.5MB) thirty minutes of audio...
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 6:29pm PST
Baltimore: Solidarity with Locked-Out Hotel Workers; Arrests BALTIMORE, MD (11/9/04)--If you crossed Light Street walking east on the south side of Pratt around 5:00pm today, you would have noticed on your left a Baltimore Police Department squad car and a police van with back doors open and, in full view, 10 seats waiting for potential arrestees with seat belts opened to embrace them. On your right, a rally of 150-200 listening to speakers and chanting....
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 6:14pm PST
11/20 SF Rally& Picket For Hotel Workers The Million Worker March Committee has initiated a call for a rally and march to support the SF locked out hotel workers on Saturday November 20, 2004 at 11:00 AM at Union Square....
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 2:33pm PST
Hotel Workers' Fight: Revolution at the Palace Saturday, November 13, 5:30PM and on... Upset the scab HAPSBURG IMPERIAL COURT banquet at the Palace Hotel in support of locked out hotel workers......
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 8:21am PST
Anti-War Protesters March By Hotels To Show Support For Locked Out Workers 
The Falluja protest Tuesday night was also a solidarity protest for the locked out hotel workers. The march went past several hotels and the crowd chanted in support of the workers getting a contract...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 9:40pm PST
MUNI Fare Hike Next? Kerry concedes,
SF hotel lockout continues,
Newsom's Prop K con job,
MUNI fare hike next?...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 12:25pm PST
Flying Picket Sunday Nov.7 7pm Meet at Powell & Geary (in Union Square) in San Francisco. We'll fly from hotel picket to picket, going to as many as we want to, making noise, meeting hotel workers, showing solidarity, and having fun....
Posted: Sat, Nov 6, 2004 10:10pm PST
A.N.S.W.E.R. 'Adopts' a Local 2 Hotel—San Francisco Thursdays, October 28 to ???, 4:30–6:30 p.m.
Crowne Plaza Hotel
480 Sutter between Powell & Stockton
(in Union Square, a short walk from the Powell St. BART station)...
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 10:11pm PST
Flying Picket in Solidarity on 11/7, 7 PM 
This Sunday, Nov. 7 at 7:00 PM, will be the 5th Flying Picket in solidarity with the locked out hotel workers. They've been out for over a month and they need us to come together in unity as a working class community to support them....
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 12:53pm PST
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