Hotel Workers March in San Francisco
A Photodocumentary
By David Bacon
June 9, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 9JUNE05 - Hotel workers and supporters demonstrate against the fourteen San Francisco Class A hotels which their union, UNITEHERE Local 2, says are demanding increased health care payments, and offering inadequate raises in stalled union contract negotiations. The union also wants an expiration date for their contract in 2006 (as it recently won in Los Angeles), which would allow the union to act as one union nationally during the next round of contract negotiations in major US cities
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David Bacon is a freelance writer and photographer who writes regularly on labor and immigration issues. His latest book is "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004).