The union representing 3,000 workers at Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt hotels in San Francisco could strike this week to put pressure on the chains after about two months of negotiations have failed to produce a new contract.  

A strike authorization vote by union members concluded Friday with support of 94% of those voting, said Lizzy Tapia, president of Unite Here Local 2. The union couldn’t say how many of the workers voted. Authorization of a strike does not guarantee there will be a work stoppage. 

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Cameron Fozi is a data journalism intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. He is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where he reported and edited for the city and campus newspaper, the Daily Californian. In summer 2023, he interned for his hometown newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune.