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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- San Francisco's biggest hotels are locking out unionized workers in a labor dispute focused on healthcare costs and contract length.
The lockout by 10 of the city's largest hotels began Friday after two days of picketing, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday.
The union says the hotels' proposal to increase eligibility requirements for health insurance will end insurance for 1,100 households in the 8,000-member union. The union said the employers' proposal also would shift more of the cost of premiums to the workers. In the fifth year of the contract, workers' would be required to pay $273.42 per month.
The hotel workers union, in separate negotiations in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., is seeking two-year contracts, expiring in 2006, which would line up with contracts in six other cities and the state of Hawaii.
Such coordination is widely seen as potentially strengthening the union's ability to press an advantage during the next round of talks.
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