Summary: As a strike by 2,500 Marriott hotel workers in San Francisco approaches its fourth week and the giant Oracle Openworld conference begins, the bills are adding up for businesses. The day before the 1,000-person ComNet 2018 conference in San Francisco was set to open this month, the organizers scrapped months of planning and changed venues. The strike posed a moral challenge for the event’s organizer, whose stated mission is providing a voice for good causes.
