It's the third wave of hotel worker strikes in Boston since Sept. 1, when workers at four hotels took to the picket lines over Labor Day weekend. Last week, 450 workers went on strike for three days at four more hotels in Boston. Thursday's strike is the biggest one in Boston so far, with 1,200 workers at four hotels participating.

"We're showing them that we got to do what we got to do to get our raise," Renaissance Seaport hotel worker Dee Dee Jones said from their picket line Thursday morning. "Nobody wants to strike. It's sad that we had to strike just to get a new contract.

BOSTON - Hotel workers went on strike in Boston Thursday morning for a third time this month. This time, workers at the Omni Parker House, Omni Boston Seaport, Renaissance Boston Seaport, and Westin Boston Seaport walked off the job at 7 a.

Workers in Boston say they would prefer not to go on strike, but feel they have no choice given the lack of meaningful progress in current contract negotiations.