Pressure mounts on San Francisco's struck hotels:

San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez introduced a resolution Tuesday urging 14 city hotels to stop the lockout of 4,000 union workers. He has scheduled a hearing on the matter Friday at 10 a.m. The resolution sides with the union, Unite Here Local 2, in urging the group that negotiates labor contracts for the group of hotels, the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group, to end the lockout. It also urges the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau to notify all city visitors on the "noncooperation on the part of the Multi-Employer Group and their refusal to allow workers to return to their jobs.'' The union struck four hotels for two weeks starting Sept. 29. On Oct. 1, the 10 other hotels in the group locked out their union workers, and on Oct. 13, when the strike ended, the original four hotels locked out their workers. On Friday, Gonzalez attended a hearing of the board's Finance and Audits Committee that was called to hear an update on the labor dispute. Both sides were invited, but representatives of the hotels declined the invitation. They noted that several members of the board had joined locked-out picketing workers recently "at our door."