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Monday, June 19, 2006

Major NY hotels reach contract with 22,000 union workers, but two Hiltons hold out

Major NY hotels reach contract with 22,000 union workers, but two Hiltons hold out
Source: NYT
Many of the city's best-known hotels, including the St. Regis, the Four Seasons and the Intercontinental, reached a tentative agreement early yesterday with 22,000 union workers, averting a strike at a time when hotels are flush with visitors and profits. But the unions continued to wrestle with the Hilton Hotels Corporation at the Waldorf-Astoria and the New York Hilton, as acrimonious negotiations continued over asbestos problems and what the union calls "employer theft" of wages.

 



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