strike

After weeks of picketing Boston area hotels, a group of more than 700 Hilton hotel workers last Thursday signed a contract with owners securing wage increases and improved health care and retirement benefits.

Visitors to Omni and Hilton hotels in Boston are being met by 24-hour picket lines as more than 1,200 local workers strike as part of a national push for better wages.

The effects of the SAG-AFTRA strike have hit home in New England. Productions that were slated for the area are either on hold or canceled, leaving local performers in limbo.