Update 1: SF Hotel Employees to Return to Work
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Unionized hotel workers in San Francisco agreed Saturday to return to work following an eight-week lockout, dealing a major boost to the city&#39;s tourism industry on the eve of the busy holiday season.
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Hotel workers at four San Francisco hotels have commenced a two-week strike this morning after working without a union contract for more than six weeks.
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OCTOBER 05, 2004 -- Ten leading San Francisco hotels this week locked out employees in sympathy with the four hotels impacted by last week&#39;s strike by the local Unite Here branch of the AFL-CIO.
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SAN FRANCISCO Fourteen hotels in San Francisco are ignoring the mayor&#39;s call for a cooling-off period and are still locking out unionized workers.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Gavin Newsom on Sunday asked labor leaders and the management of 14 hotels embroiled in a nearly month-old dispute to resume normal operations for at least 90 days while the two sides try to negotiate a new contract.
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In his most forceful move yet to bring an end to a disruptive labor dispute, Mayor Gavin Newsom urged operators of some of The City&#39;s most prominent hotels to let employees return to work and pressed both sides to reach an agreement by Jan. 25.
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Thirty-eight raucous days of picket lines, tough talk and the angst of 4,300 San Francisco hotel workers locked out of their jobs with the holidays nigh were put aside Saturday when negotiators for the hotels and the workers&#39; union agreed to a 60-day
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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.
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Workers at four leading hotels began a two-week strike Wednesday, and their union said other big hotels in the city might soon lock out workers in the labor dispute centered on wages and pensions.
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KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel  - The hotels in northern   Israel have reopened. Travelers are slowly trickling back and   workers are patching up homes hit by Hizbollah rockets.
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Fire crews were sent to the seafront hotel after fire broke out in a food preparation area.
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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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LOS ANGELES - Thousands of hotel workers in Los Angeles voted to authorize a strike, their union said Tuesday, joining in an effort that could lead to walkouts in three cities.    About three-fourths of the 3,000 housekeepers, bellmen and other workers at nine prominent Los Angeles hotels took part in the vote Monday, and union spokesman Danny Feingold said Tuesday that 83 percent of them chose to authorize a strike...
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Hotel workers in Washington, DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles held out the threat of a strike on Sunday, but have told management they will resume contract talks, a DC union official said.
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San Francisco hotel owners and union officials on Saturday announced a 60-day cooling period that will put nearly 4,000 striking hotel workers back on the job for the first time in nearly eight weeks.
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By Therese Poletti and Nicole C. Wo, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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Boston -- About 85 members of Hotel Workers Local 26 demonstrated Wednesday in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Boston to show support for locked-out workers in San Francisco.