Negotiations resumed Friday with little movement in San Francisco's hotel labor dispute, with employers offering their latest contract proposal for 4,300 workers represented by Local 2 of the hotel employees union.

Afternoon talks ended with the sides still at odds over a proposal that hotel spokesman Matt Adams, managing director of the Hyatt Regency, called very comprehensive. The four-year proposal increased annual maximums for workers' health care costs and withdrew some previously proposed changes in retiree medical benefits, Adams said.

However, Local 2 President Mike Casey called the offer "utterly insulting and insignificant" in the union's long-stalled talks with 14 of the city's largest hotels. Casey said the proposal failed to address wage increases sought by the union and, like previous offers, cut many medical benefits and called for increases in co-payments.

Earlier this week, the union for the first time proposed a contract that would last three or four years, in addition to the two-year contract the union has sought since April.

Talks will resume Wednesday. A 60-day cooling-off period urged by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will end Jan. 23.

Also Friday, 14 Washington hotels and the union representing 3,500 workers reached a tentative agreement in a conflict that had threatened to lead to a strike even as crowds descend on the city for the president's inauguration.