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San Francisco mayor joins picketing hotel workers.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004

By James Temple, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 27--SAN FRANCISCO -- Mayor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday briefly joined around 100 workers picketing the Westin Saint Francis, after 14 hotels here refused to end a two-week lockout affecting 4,000 employees before the mayor's deadline.

"I won't let the corporate interests back East use San Francisco as a pawn," Newsom said at a rancorous press conference in front of the hotel, where he also reiterated a pledge to divert city business from the 14 hotels.

"Why would ...

 

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