Hotel employees to return to work after lockout
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San Francisco -- 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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Mayor Gavin Newsom made good on his promise to join locked-out union members on the picket line Tuesday after a group of San Francisco hotels rejected his proposed 90-day cooling off period, extending a bitter labor dispute that has left 4,000 workers
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Hotel workers in Washington, D.C.,  San Francisco and Los Angeles held out the threat of a strike  on Sunday, but have told management they will resume contract  talks, a D.C. union official said.
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SAN FRANCISCO Thousands of hotel workers remain locked out of their jobs after hotel operators defied a call from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for a 90-day cooling-off period.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom warned hotel operators that if they don't end their lockout by Tuesday afternoon, he will join workers on the picket line, call for a boycott of the 14 hotels involved and urge other mayors to play hardball with the properties' corporate owners.
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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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Hundreds of registered nurses and hospital workers from Sutter Hospital affiliates are scheduled to return to work this morning after a four-day lockout.
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Fourteen hotels continued their lockout of unionized employees, defying a call by the mayor for a 90-day cooling-off period.
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Striking Hollywood writers could be  back at work as early as Monday for the first time in three  months if they embrace terms of a tentative contract deal that  union leaders are expected to present them this weekend.
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OSLO, Norway  - As a strike by Norwegian offshore oil rig workers dragged into its third month, employers were set to retaliate with a lockout planned for Thursday.
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As a strike that could cripple the District's hospitality industry looms, employers offered to resume bargaining next week but also alleged to the NLRB that the union has not negotiated in good faith.
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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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NEW YORK - The NHL will lock out its players Thursday, starting a work stoppage that threatens to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season.    The long-expected decision was confirmed by NHL owners Wednesday following a meeting in New York...
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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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For state employees in New Jersey, the weeklong, unexpected break is over. State workers were heading back to work Monday after a government shutdown temporarily halted most state services last week and closed Atlantic City&#039;s 12 casinos for three days.
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Hotel workers at 14 DC hotels are preparing to strike after talks over a new contract broke down last night. Union officials said hotel management walked out of contract
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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.