SF mayor seeks cooling-off period in hotel contract dispute
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SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has asked labor leaders and the management of fourteen hotels for a ninety-day cooling-off period in their contract dispute.
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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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Unionized workers at four large San Francisco hotels went on strike Wednesday morning over issues similar to those causing an impasse between hotels and their workers at several large hotels in Washington.
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Unionized workers at 14 San  Francisco hotels authorized their leadership to call a strike  if contract talks break down, a union spokesman said on  Wednesday.
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Celebrating the first anniversary  of his decision to issue marriage licenses to gays, San  Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom vowed on Saturday to stay at the  forefront of fights to make same-sex marriages legal.
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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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SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco&#39;s unionized hotel workers will go back to work after an eight-week lockout, dealing a major boost to the city&#39;s tourism industry on the eve of the busy holidayseason.
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Marin Supervisor Steve Kinsey is going toe to toe with Gov. Arnold Schwarz-enegger over how cost overruns on the Bay Bridge should be funded, a decision that could affect key Marin transportation projects.
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The No. 2 official at the San Francisco Department of Public Works threatened workers under contract to clean city streets with loss of pay if they didn&#39;t campaign for Gavin Newsom for mayor, according to
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ATWATER, Calif. - You can ask city officials how many years their mayor can serve, just don't ask for it in writing.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom said he doesn't know if he's an alcoholic but admitted that drinking had "gotten in the way" of his job performance.
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A year after San Francisco's Winter of Love, Mayor Gavin Newsom is trying to keep the passion burning.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg has offered to help get stalled labor negotiations between Broadway stagehands and theater producers back on track, but feels "at least for the next month or so, there is no danger of a work stoppage or lockout on Broadway."
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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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Contract talks between the local hotel union and 14 large D.C. hotels resumed last evening, as the sides discussed employee workloads and other matters in an effort to avoid a strike during the presidential inauguration next week.
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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.