About 700 local hotel workers joined a nationwide, union-led strike in September. Photo: Bryant Campos
🪧 Hundreds of hotel workers at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront ended their 38-day strike after ratifying a new four-year union contract Wednesday. It includes higher wages, more funding for workers' pension and health care, and improved policies for gratuity, PTO and holidays. (UNITE HERE Local 30)
Unionized workers at the Hotel Del Coronado will be proposing similar wages and working conditions in their new contract, likely preventing a strike at that property, Kate reports.
🚫 "I am not going to let San Diego turn into San Francisco," former Mayor Kevin Faulconer said of his bid for a county supervisor seat that would give Republicans a narrow majority on the county board — a rarity for the party in urban California. (Politico)
🔋 An assemblymember from the Coachella Valley says Imperial County needs to redesign its spending plan for expected revenue from the region's vast lithium deposits. (KPBS)
