**San Francisco Hotel Workers End Three-Month Strike with New Hilton Contract**
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The final group of striking hotel workers in San Francisco is set to vote on Tuesday to approve a tentative agreement for a new contract with Hilton, marking the end of a three-month-long strike.
This vote follows recent agreements with Marriott and Hyatt, which resolved strikes for approximately 1,750 workers at those hotels, according to the union Unite Here Local 2.
Since September, over 10,000 hotel workers across 11 U.S. cities have participated in strikes. In San Francisco alone, the strike expanded to include around 2,500 workers, the union reported. Some demonstrators were even arrested in October during a protest outside a Hilton hotel in the city.
The new Hilton agreement covers about 900 workers, including 650 who have been on strike at the Hilton Union Square and 250 others who were prepared to strike at a nearby Hilton property.
“We believe this agreement is beneficial to both our team members and our hotels,” said Paul Ades, Hilton’s Senior Vice President, in a statement. “We look forward to welcoming our team members back to work and continuing to provide our guests with our signature hospitality.”
The union highlighted key provisions in the deal, including the preservation of workers’ union health insurance plans, wage increases, and new safeguards against understaffing and increased workloads. The contract is set to expire in 2028.
“These 93 days have not been easy, and I’m so proud that my coworkers and I never gave up,” said Bill Fung, a janitor at the Union Square Hilton. “We stood together through the rain and cold, and even though there were some hard days, it was all worth it.”
Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, hundreds of hotel workers represented by the Culinary Workers Union remain on strike after walking off the job in mid-November. They are engaged in a heated battle for a new contract with Virgin Hotels, marking the union’s longest strike in over 20 years.
Earlier this year, in March, hotel workers in Southern California ratified contracts with more than 30 hotels after staging repeated strikes during the summer of 2023.
The resolution of the San Francisco strike brings relief to workers and hotels alike, signaling progress in labor negotiations across the hospitality industry.
Source: abcnews.go.com