I do not understand this. If an individual does not show up for work, they are either on vacation, sick, dead or resigned. There are thousands of homeless in San Fran that DO want to work. Hire them. Stop whining about people who quit and love to march with signs, they are no longer your problem. Hire people that want to work.
“Organizers with the Unite Here Local 2 union representing the workers warned Wednesday that hotel employees could walk off another nine hotels as a result of the “extreme” negotiating positions taken by the hotels’ representatives in contract talks.
“The message is, you’re playing with fire and this is only going to get bigger and worse,” said union spokesperson Ted Waechter.
About 435 workers at the St. Regis San Francisco and the W San Francisco hotels were scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to authorize strikes. Seven other hotels, including two in the East Bay and two in Burlingame, had already authorized strikes, meaning they could walk off the job at any point.
The striking workers include housekeepers, servers, bartenders, cooks, dishwashers, bellhops and doormen. They are among more than 10,000 hotel workers who went on strike in 11 cities over Labor Day weekend, and San Francisco is the only city where workers remain on strike.
They are not “walking off the job. They are quitting. Listen to them—they do not want to work. Hire those that do.
Striking union hotel workers march downtown as conflict nears two months
By Patrick Hoge, SF Examiner, 11/20/24 https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/striking-sf-hotel-workers-march-as-conflict-nears-2-months/article_02c8df14-a799-11ef-ae02-874d6314941f.html
Several hundred striking Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotel workers and supporters marched noisily through the cold, rainy streets of downtown San Francisco on Wednesday toward the luxurious Palace Hotel to press their demands for better pay and working conditions.
Wednesday’s demonstration came two months after the start of strikes at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco Union Square, Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Westin St. Francis (a Marriott hotel), labor actions that spread in October to the San Francisco Marriott Union Square and the Palace Hotel (Marriott) at Montgomery and Market streets.
Organizers with the Unite Here Local 2 union representing the workers warned Wednesday that hotel employees could walk off another nine hotels as a result of the “extreme” negotiating positions taken by the hotels’ representatives in contract talks.
“The message is, you’re playing with fire and this is only going to get bigger and worse,” said union spokesperson Ted Waechter.
About 435 workers at the St. Regis San Francisco and the W San Francisco hotels were scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to authorize strikes. Seven other hotels, including two in the East Bay and two in Burlingame, had already authorized strikes, meaning they could walk off the job at any point.
The striking workers include housekeepers, servers, bartenders, cooks, dishwashers, bellhops and doormen. They are among more than 10,000 hotel workers who went on strike in 11 cities over Labor Day weekend, and San Francisco is the only city where workers remain on strike.
The conflict is shaping up as one of the most severe in the local hotel industry since 2004 when about 4,000 workers were ultimately locked out by management for eight weeks following a two-week strike. It was followed by a two-year boycott of city hotels that severely affected San Francisco’s tourism industry and ended when hotel workers and management ratified a new contract.
Thousands of Unite Here Local 2 also struck at Marriott-owned hotels for two months in 2018 — the longest of the nationwide walkout — ending after agreeing to a contract that included $4-an-hour raises for housekeepers.
Edwin Solis, 38, who said he has worked in housekeeping at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco near Union Square for the last nine years, was resolute Wednesday.
He lives in Richmond with his wife and two children, a 7-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter. Foregoing a paycheck for two months has been difficult, especially with the cost of commuting into The City to stand outside on the picket line, where workers in the elements chant and bang on drums and other noisemaking devices to make their message as intrusive as possible.
“It’s really hard to be on strike, but we have to do it,” Solis said.
He said the hotel negotiators have been “offending” the workers with “garbage” proposals.
“This company, they make a lot of money. We don’t accept any more excuses,” Solis said. “We’re not asking for that much.”
Striking Unite Here Local 2 members rally at Yerba Buena Gardens ahead of a march to downtown San Francisco on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.
Hyatt Hotels Corp. on Oct. 21 projected full year net income would fall between $1.4 billion and $1.45 billion.
Unite Here negotiators, frustrated at talk from hotel representatives about how the down San Francisco economy precluded wage increases, took the unusual approach of proposing to forego most wage hikes in return for future potential bonuses tied to company profits, Waechter said.
“We wanted to show that we have faith in San Francisco’s recovery. We also wanted to call their bluff,” he said.
