Union workers walk at 4 hotels
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Union workers went out on strike Wednesday morning at four San Francisco hotels, their contract bargaining having stalled over differences about wages, pensions and the term of a contract.
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Astronauts from the space shuttle Atlantis ventured out Sunday for the fourth walk in space in less than a week to work on the International Space Station.
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Negotiators for 14 major District hotels walked out of contract talks with the union that represents 3,800 employees Wednesday afternoon, raising the prospect of a work stoppage at the city's largest hotels.
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Hotel workers' union Unite Here said   on Monday a tentative agreement had been struck with hotel   group Hyatt in Chicago, covering 1,900 workers in four hotels.
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The two sides in San Francisco&#39;s bitter hotel labor dispute plan return to the bargaining table Friday. The union representing about 4,000 striking and locked-out hotel workers and the operators of the 14
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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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Seven workers at a hotel where Alexander Litvinenko held a meeting test positive for radioactive polonium-210.
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The upcoming presidential inauguration may force movement in stalled contract negotiations between 14 major Washington hotels and the union that represents many of the workers.
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There are signs of progress in talks today to avert a strike at some of Washington's top hotels.
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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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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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SAN FRANCISCO Workers at four leading San Francisco hotels have started a two-week strike. Their union says ten other big hotels in the city might soon lock out their workers.
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A strike by thousands of hotel  workers in three cities seemed likely after hotel workers in  Los Angeles and Washington D.C. authorized a strike and the San  Francisco local was voting on Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Employers agreed to end their lockout of workers at 14 San Francisco hotels and resume negotiations with UNITE HERE!
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Thousands of San Francisco hotel workers embroiled in a labor dispute will return to work Tuesday under an agreement announced Saturday by Mayor Gavin Newsom before a crowd of beaming employees and relieved hotel representatives.
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Unionized workers at four San Francisco hotels went on strike Wednesday morning. A union leader called the walkout &quot;a wake-up call&quot; for hotels to stimulate stalled talks.
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Strikes planned for January 7, 14 and 17 after union ballot