1980 San Francisco hotel strike

1980 San Francisco hotel strike Labor Unions July 17, 1980 – August 15, 1980(June 17, 1980 y ago) Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 2 San Francisco Hotel Employers Association 6,000 workers The 1980 San Francisco hotel strike was labor dispute between 6,000 members of Local 2 the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union and the Hotel Employers Association in the San Francisco Bay Area. The strike occurred began on July 17, 1980 and was characterized by massive picket lines at luxury hotels during the peak of the tourist season. Local 2 was the largest union of the city and the strike was widely supported by the Bay Area AFL-CIO council, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Damu Jean Economic Repression: The San Francisco Hotel Workers Strike The Black Scholar 1981 12 1 68–71 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41067969 0006-4246 San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein was also involved in ending the strike. Local 2 was widely known as a militant union. Strikers were overwhelmingly African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic women and they were supported by women's labor groups such as Union W.A.G.E.. In late July, the president of HERE became involved in negotiations in an attempt to end the strike.Talks Continuing in Hotel Strike https://www.nytimes.com/1980/07/26/archives/talks-continuing-in-hotel-strike.html The New York Times 26 July 1980 During the strike eight members of the Communist Workers' Party entered Feinstein's outer office and shouted threats and obscenities in which they accused her of being behind the hotel strike and demanded that she send a message to President Carter at the Democratic National Convention.August 8, 1980 Radical ousted 3 The Desert Sun https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-desert-sun/64953718/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20240311172145/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-desert-sun/64953718/ 2024-03-11 Newspapers.com December 12, 2020 The strike ended on August 15, with a 67 page contract being written between the union leaders, hotels, and Feinstein. The international union, not the employers, had to cover the $250,000 worth of retroactive payments to employees who went on strike.August 16, 1980 Hotel workers back on jobs 13 The Modesto Bee https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64953751/the-modesto-bee/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20220421223923/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64953751/the-modesto-bee/ 2022-04-21 Newspapers.com December 12, 2020 In 2004, a similar strike recalled memories of the 1980 dispute.Abate Tom Strife mirrors earlier strike / Hotel workers walked out in 1980 for four weeks https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Strife-mirrors-earlier-strike-Hotel-workers-2721033.php October 1, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20240311171651/https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Strife-mirrors-earlier-strike-Hotel-workers-2721033.php March 11, 2024 SFGate References Category:1980 labor disputes and strikes Category:1980 in San Francisco Category:July 1980 in the United States Category:August 1980 in the United States Category:Labor disputes in California Category:Women and trade unions Category:Labor disputes led by UNITE HERE