San Francisco hotel workers near the end of a 3-month strike
SAN FRANCISCO, California — The latest group of striking hotel workers in San Francisco will vote Tuesday to approve a tentative agreement on a new contract with Hilton, ending a three-month strike.
The vote comes after similar deals were struck last week with Marriott and Hyatt, ending a strike by about 1,750 workers at those hotels, according to the union Unite Here Local 2.
Since September, more than 10,000 hotel employees have done so went on strike in 11 cities across the U.S., the strike in San Francisco grew to include about 2,500 hotel workers, according to Unite Here Local 2. Some were arrested during a demonstration in October as union members sat on a busy street outside a Hilton hotel.
The deal with Hilton would affect approximately 900 employees, including 650 employees who have been on strike for more than three months at the Hilton hotel in San Francisco’s Union Square district and 250 employees who agreed to strike at another Hilton property across the street, the union. said.
“We believe this agreement is beneficial for both our team members and our hotels,” Hilton Senior Vice President Paul Ades said in a statement. “We look forward to welcoming our team members back to work and continuing to offer our signature hospitality to our guests. .”
The union said the deal includes the preservation of union health insurance plans, wage increases and new protections against understaffing and increases in workload. The new contract would expire in 2028.
“These 93 days have not been easy, and I am so proud that my colleagues and I never gave up,” Bill Fung, concierge at the Union Square hotel, said in a statement. “We stood together through the rain and the cold, and even though there were some tough days, it was all worth it.”
Hundreds of hotel workers, represented by the Culinary Workers Union, are still on strike in Las Vegas afterward walk off the track in mid-November, amid a controversial battle over a new contract with Virgin Hotels. It is the union’s longest strike in more than two decades.
In March of this year, hotel workers in Southern California ratified contracts with more than 30 hotels after repeated strikes in the summer of 2023.