San Francisco's Mayor calls for San Francisco hotels to get back to the table:

Mayor Gavin Newsom on Sunday asked labor leaders and the management of 14 hotels embroiled in a nearly month-old dispute to resume normal operations for at least 90 days while the two sides try to negotiate a new contract. In a letter requesting a 90-day "cooling off" period, Newsom said the dispute has caused "significant disruption" to San Francisco residents and visitors, threatening to harm the city's economic recovery. It represented Newsom's first formal attempt to broker the peace in an increasingly bitter battle pitting several of San Francisco's landmark hotels against thousands of housekeepers, bellmen, cooks and other employees represented by the union, Unite Here Local 2. The trouble began Sept. 29 when unionized workers frustrated with stalled contract negotiations struck four San Francisco hotels. Ten other hotels subsequently locked out their non-management workers. Labor leaders ended the strike of the four other hotels Oct. 13, but those workers also have been locked out...The hotels plan to respond by the deadline, said Cornell Fowler, a spokesman for the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group. The union will eagerly agree to a cooling off period, said Mike Casey, president of Unite Local 2.