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Lockout KO’d

San Francisco hotel workers triumph with help from city-by-city support

By David Bacon

The five-week San Francisco hotel lockout was fought by workers who wanted to “level the playing field,” in the words of Elena Duran, a room cleaner at the city’s Hilton. Inspired by the idea of unions in many cities around the country sitting down at the same time with the giant hotel operators, they demanded a common contract expiration date… return to article

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