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Hilton Workers Start 3-Day Strike
CHICAGO (AP) -- Hundreds of Hilton Chicago Hotel workers have started a three-day strike that union officials say is in protest of the hotel chain's efforts to "lock workers into cheap recession contracts."

Unite Here Local 1 spokeswoman Annemarie Strassel told The Associated Press workers began striking in Chicago Saturday and won't return to their jobs until Tuesday.

Hilton Chicago told the Chicago Tribune that the hotel is "operating as normal."

She says the union represents about 600 workers at the Hilton Chicago downtown. Strassel says the employees have joined striking workers in San Francisco, who went out Wednesday, and in Honolulu, who went out Thursday.

More than 8,000 Chicago area hotel workers, including ones at five Hiltons, saw their contracts expire in August 2009.

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