Dozens of striking San Francisco hotel workers were arrested as hundreds demonstrated for higher wages and better benefits.
Dozens of striking San Francisco hotel workers were arrested as hundreds demonstrated for higher wages and better benefits two months after their contract expired.The arrests came Wednesday around 5 p.m. as union members sat in the middle of a busy street following a march that began near the Hilton Union Square, the city's largest hotel.Demonstrators wore red T-shirts and chanted, 'No contract, no peace,' while blasting air horns.
A Hyatt official told the newspaper that the union hasn't reached out to resume bargaining since the strike began last month.The union said it would give up guaranteed wage increases and instead tie them to hotel revenue.'Hotel workers love San Francisco and want to help our city recover,' Lizzy Tapia, president of Unite Here Local 2, said in a statement.
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