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The Beverly Beverly, city (1990 pop. 38,195), Essex co., NE Mass., on Massachusetts Bay; inc. as a city 1894. Its chief manufactures are electronic and scientific equipment, consumer goods, and chemicals.  Hilton Hotel has negotiated a new labor contract with the main union representing 430 employees. The contract calls for a 20 percent wage increase over three years for housekeepers and smaller increases for other employees. The agreement will add $2.30 to the wages of all non-tipped Beverly Hilton employees and $1.25 to all tipped workers such as servers and porters. It also calls for hotel management to maintain the current health plan for employees while a restructured plan is negotiated. The pact also sets up a program to increase the hiring of black workers and another program to evaluate the workload The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. An amount of labor
While a precise definition of a workload is elusive, a commonly accepted definition is the hypothetical relationship between a group or individual human operator and task demands.
 of housekeepers. The agreement still has to be ratified rat·i·fy  
tr.v. rat·i·fied, rat·i·fy·ing, rat·i·fies
To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm. See Synonyms at approve.
 by the rank and file employees. The Beverly Hilton also recently completed an $80 million renovation and is also looking into the possibility of building two condominium condominium

In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common.
 towers and a related building on land next to the hotel.
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Title Annotation:News of the Week; The Beverly Hilton Hotel has negotiated with labor unions for wage increase
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief article
Date:Oct 9, 2006
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