Hilton Union Square Strike Day 1 Video

Scenes from day one of the strike of the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. Workers at the Hilton Union Square have been without a contract since August 2009, and are fighting for fair wages, affordable health care coverage, and a decent pension from Blackstone, the corporation that owns Hilton.

Blackstone recently extracted $180 million from taxpayers through a debt "restructuring"--they owed the Federal Reserve $320 million and persuaded the agency to accept just $142 million in payment.

Meanwhile Blackstone is trying to force the hardworking taxpayers who make the hotels run into a permanent recession by increasing the cost of healthcare by hundreds of dollars a month, reducing staffing, increasing workloads, and freezing pensions.

The Hilton Union Square and several other San Francisco hotels are under ongoing customer boycotts until the workers get a fair contract. Do not eat, sleep, drink, or spend any money at the Hilton Union Square.

For more information see www.onedaylongersf.org.

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• Hilton
• Union Square
• UNITE HERE
• Local 2
• hotel
• workers
• strike
• labor
• boycott
• San Francisco