| //16-09-2010 |
The possibility of a hotel worker walkout in San Francisco loomed larger Wednesday night after workers at one of the city’s busiest hotels authorized a strike.
Early Wednesday, hundreds of hotel workers voted to authorize a strike at the Hilton Hotel on O'Farrell Street. 74 percent of those who voted checked "yes" to a strike on their ballots.
They could be joined by workers from as many as 60-hotels
At the Union Hall Wednesday evening, workers counted the ballots. The union president said no date for a strike has been set, but that the result of the vote sends a message to the Hilton and dozens of other San Francisco hotels.
“If they don't move from where they are, if they keep on the table what they have on the table, the chances of a strike are absolute,” said Local 2 President Mike Casey.
Blanca Limon said she makes $2,000 a month cleaning rooms at the Hilton. She said the hotel recently raised the number of rooms each worker is required to clean from 14 rooms a day up to 20.
“We don't want to strike, but it's the only thing we have,” said Limon. “It's very hard. It's very stressed and they don't want to pay more for us.”
The key sticking points in the negotiations are health-care costs, pensions and wages.
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| //06-02-2010 |
Indianapolis - A winter storm caused major problems for Indiana drivers Friday into Saturday. Hoosiers were dealing with slide-offs and crashes on roads, power outages and travel advisories.
As of 8:00 am Saturday, Duke Energy said it had 3,000 customers without power, with over 1,000 in Hendricks County alone. Indianapolis Power and Light reported a small number, 186, without power.
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| //18-07-2009 |
Calgary energy companies with operations in Indonesia are rethinking plans to send people there.
Nine people were killed and fifty others injured Friday morning, when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Jakarta hotel.
One of the people hurt was a general manager for Calgary-based Husky
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| //14-01-2009 |
KODIAK, Alaska -- An Alaska Airlines jet has been grounded to check for damage after its pilots maxed out the engines to get it stopped on an extremely icy runway.
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| //29-11-2008 |
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. and Indian units of financial companies such as Merrill Lynch & Co. shut their Mumbai offices today after terrorists killed 101 people in the financial hub of the world's second-fastest growing economy.
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| //29-11-2008 |
Traveller tracking systems have become very sophisticated since they first became widespread after 9/11 but they don't know everything
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| //10-11-2008 |
THE Federal Government has stepped up warnings to Australians about travel to Indonesia by highlighting the possibility of a terrorist attack encouraged by the executions.
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| //23-09-2008 |
CAIRO: Nineteen tourists and Egyptians kidnapped in the Sahara Desert have been located in good health in Sudan but no rescue attempt will be made if there is a risk of harm, Egyptian and Sudanese officials said on Tuesday.
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