REGION

REGION
Howland administratorto speak at meeting
LIBERTY -- Darlene St. George, Howland Township administrator, will be guest speaker when the Western Reserve Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Holiday Inn MetroPlex, 1620 Motor Inn Drive.
Participants will have time for business networking before dinner, which starts at 6 p.m. SHRM members will also elect new officers for 2004.
NATION
Workers go on strikeat pricey restaurants
NEW YORK-- Workers at two of the city's best-known and priciest restaurants went on strike Tuesday in a dispute centering on management's demand that workers start paying for part of their health coverage.
"If we let them get away with this, next contract instead of taking a finger they will take a whole arm," said Leon Lahuec, a wait captain picketing the "21" Club at lunchtime.
Meanwhile, negotiations resumed Tuesday at "21" and La Caravelle, the other restaurant where workers walked out. They were the first bargaining sessions since talks broke down Friday.
The restaurants are asking workers to pay $5 a week toward their coverage in the first year of the contract, $10 in the second year and $15 in the third year.
From Vindicator staff and wire reports