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Arrests made in Boston protest backing locked-out San Francisco hotel workers.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004

By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 21--They clean hotel rooms, tend bars, cook meals, and wait tables at many of Boston's prestigious hotels and universities, an army of mostly immigrant and low-wage workers that labors behind the scenes.

But yesterday, after learning that 4,000 hotel workers in San Francisco are locked out of jobs at 14 hotels, about 85 members of this largely hidden workforce walked into the sedate lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Downtown Crossing and, seated on the floor, demonstrated until police officers ...

 

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