By Jesse Russell

After a strike, a lockout and a heated labor dispute running for nearly two years - hotel workers in San Francisco have reached a tentative agreement with their employers. More than 4,000 workers from 14 hotels are represented by UNITE-Here who has been meeting with hotel management daily for two weeks straight. The hotels reportedly dropped an attempt to split employee benefits into two tiers - one of the major sticking point for the workers. Last month the workers had voted in favor of strike action if a contract agreement could not be reached.