As a strike by 2,500 Marriott hotel workers in San Francisco approaches its fourth week and the giant Oracle OpenWorld conference begins, the bills are adding up for businesses. The day before the 1,000-person ComNet 2018 conference earlier this month in San Francisco, the organizers scrapped months of planning and changed venues. The strike posed a moral challenge for the event’s organizer.

SF Marriott hotel strike costs conference $300,000 and counting

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