Striking San Francisco hotel workers are attempting to discourage people from attending a major healthcare conference in January.
Housekeepers, cooks, dishwashers, servers, bartenders and other members of the union, Unite Here Local 2, are reaching out to attendees of the invitation-only J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to be held Jan. 13-16 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. The conference is billed as a global symposium that includes health and technology industry leaders and members of the investment community. Union spokesperson Ted Waechter said 10,000 people took part in the conference last year.
'I can't believe anyone who works in health care would try to cross our picket line when we are fighting to keep our insurance,' Ester Yuliani, a buffet attendant at the Westin St. Francis, said in the union statement. 'Marriott's proposals are so extreme that they are trying to phase out our union health care, but I'm not going to let that happen.
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