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In a year of high profits and capacity bookings, hotel managers and labor leaders are focused instead on the possibility of a strike or lockout come July 1 that could shut down most of the New York City's 315 hotels and could idle 28,000 workers. The main hotel union, Unite Here, has aligned labor contracts in six major cities - New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Honolulu and Toronto - to expire next year to put pressure on global hotel operators like Hilton, Starwood and Marriott.