US hotels strike row intensifies
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San Francisco&#39;s mayor, Gavin Newsom, has sided with striking workers in a bitter labour dispute affecting 14 of the city&#39;s top hotels.
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The hotel business in Washington has largely bounced back since Sept. 11, 2001, argue some of the 3,800 hotel workers threatening a strike, but not for them.
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A war between AT&amp;T and the largest US telecommunications workers union has degenerated into a tit-for-tat spat. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) organized Tuesday protests to chastise AT&amp;T for laying
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Ten San Francisco hotels locked out  union workers on Friday in response to a strike at four others  hotels that are part of the same bargaining unit, raising the  stakes in a confrontation that could spread to other cities  around the nation.
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Front-office executives served drinks, lawyers flipped hamburgers and accountants made beds Friday after casino-hotel workers went on strike, forcing casinos to shuffle their decks and curtail service to gamblers.
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The normally muted elegance of one of Paris's chic hotels, the Concorde Lafayette, has been shattered by noisy protests from workers complaining about management practices imposed by the property's new US owners.
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Staff go out on strike at Harley-Davidson's main US plant in a dispute over pay and healthcare provision.
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The health care union that led a 24-hour strike Wednesday at nine regional hospitals filed a lawsuit Friday against Sutter Health and a recruiting firm that hired replacement workers.
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The nationwide public sector strike which began yesterday morning has already affected some 24,000 would-be international travelers.
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The prospect of a strike by 6,000 housekeepers, waiters and other workers at some of the West Coast's landmark hotels loomed larger Thursday as negotiations for a new contract foundered.
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Negotiators for 14 major District hotels walked out of contract talks with the union that represents 3,800 employees yesterday afternoon, raising the prospect of a work stoppage as early as today at the city's largest hotels.
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Hotel workers locked out of jobs at  a Sheraton hotel in San Francisco have flown to Hawaii to  picket two resorts there and Hawaiian workers are honoring the  picket lines, a union spokesman said.
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Both hotel executives and union officials said they remain optimistic that a deal can be struck before the old contract expires Wednesday, but the strike raises the possibility of a work stoppage in the city's tourism industry.
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Republican National Convention protesters waved symbolic pink slips along a three-mile "unemployment line," labor unions demanded better treatment of workers and a group of AIDS activists infiltrated Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, as arrest totals soared beyond 1,700 for the past week.
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Their contract has expired, but eaders of the union representing about 3800 hotel workers aren&#39;t saying much about their plans for a possible work stoppage targeting some of Washington&#39;s upscale hotels.
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A casino hotel workers union threatening a strike against 10 of the city's 12 casinos has reached tentative agreement with Trump Hotels &amp; Casino Resorts, but was still threatening to walk off the job at seven other hotels.
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Hotel workers in Washington D.C.,  San Francisco and Los Angeles on Sunday held out the threat of  a strike, but have told management they will resume contract  talks, a D.C. union official said.