San Francisco hotel workers hold out for a decent settlement that protects their health security:

The San Francisco hotel stalemate dragged on Friday, when a negotiating team for union hotel workers criticized a revised health care proposal as inadequate. The 14 hotels had described the offer as "very rich." "It doesn't have specifics. There are a million unanswered questions,'' Mike Casey, president of Unite Here Local 2, said Friday before returning to the negotiating table at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and taking up the union's counterproposal, details of which were not available. The subject of increasing workers' burdens of health care coverage is crucial not only in the San Francisco hotel workers' negotiations but in discussions about employer-supported care throughout the nation.