Strike imminent? Hilton workers vote to end contract with city-owned hotel

Jeffrey Barner has opened doors for guests at Baltimore’s Hilton Inner Harbor for the past 16 years — since the hotel opened after the city spent millions to finance its design and construction. It’s become increasingly hard for the bellman to offer a warm greeting, he said, when others doing the same job in nearby cities make at least $10 more per hour. Dozens of the hotel’s roughly 200 unionized workers gathered Friday and voted not to extend their contract with the city-owned Hilton as they push for wage increases and better working conditions.