Tourists and sports fans (in town for a sold-out baseball game at AT & T Park) were forced to gingerly step around employees causing quite an uproar in the bustling streets of downtown San Francisco a hop-and-a-skip from the front lobby of the Hilton Hotel.
Uh-huh!
A year after disgruntled workers first raised picket signs to protest stalled contract talks, the dispute continues to rage on, without any equitable solution in sight.
For good reason.
For example, both sides at the bargaining table have refused to back down on the all-important issue of Health Insurance.
Hotel management has taken the position that providing full coverage to workers - during these tough economic times - would be too great a financial burden on Hilton just now.
In response, representatives for the Hotel workers have pooh-poohed the notion.
In the current round of contentious clashes, Management has felt so pushed to the wall, that they have engaged in a bit of “strike action” themselves.
Turn about is fair play, after all.
In a bid to rustle up some sympathy from the local residents, Management has chastised the striking workers for casting a poll on the tourist industry, and scaring potential business away.
“Angry protests in the streets are creating a bad image for San Francisco. Visitors to the city may be inclined to exclude S.F. from their itineraries in the future until the dispute is resolved,” they’ve lamented in disgust in so many words.
In spite of that, workers have noted their intention to continue with the walk-out and street protest until Tuesday of this week.
One revelation caused me to sit up and take notice, by the way.
Managers noted in one press conference that maids and bartenders are currently racking in at least $50, 000.00 a year!
Just betcha Americans around the country - struggling to pay their mortgages and stay afloat, won’t have much sympathy for these greedy bastards.
Indeed, their outrageous demands for full health insurance coverage is unreasonable - and wild - on its contractual face.
How many residents in the U.S. - without a formal education, no special skills, and an inability to communicate (many can’t speak English fluently) - are depositing hefty pay checks like that each week drawn on employer bank payroll accounts?
Maybe I’ll take a course in dusting - or a brush up on my mixology skills - and go knocking on Hilton’s personnel door.
After all, years ago I spent one summer working part-time hosting cocktail parties (bartending for upscale Hotel guests tossing soirees in their private suites) at the staid Hotel Vancouver in the downtown west coast city.
It’s time the Hotel brass showed these ingrates the door in San Francisco, don’t ‘ya think?
Yup.
I’ll drink to that.
Bottoms up!
Is no one stocking sanitary napkins?
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