Many of New York City's best-known hotels reached a tentative agreement early yesterday with 22,000 union workers, averting a strike at a time when hotels are flush with visitors and profits. But the unions continued to wrestle with Hilton Hotels at the Waldorf-Astoria and the New York Hilton, as acrimonious negotiations continued over asbestos problems and what the union calls "employer theft" of wages.
See "Major Hotels Reach Contract With Union, but Two Hiltons Hold Out", Charles V. Bagli, The New York Times, June 18, 2006