LOS ANGELES — The Beverly Hilton hotel and its employees' union announced a three-year labor pact yesterday that union leaders hope will serve as a map for brokering agreements on behalf of thousands of other city hotels workers whose contracts expire this year.

The agreement, reached after a two-week bargaining session, covers some 400 cooks, bellmen, maids and others who work at the posh hotel, which is in Beverly Hills and has served as the site of the Golden Globe Awards and other Hollywood events.

The terms of the contract include a wage increase of $2.30 an hour over three years for employees who don't earn tips, a group that makes up about 80 percent of the staff. It also boosts pension contributions and a provision to increase hiring of blacks.

Officials for the hotel and the union, UNITE HERE Local 11, hailed the deal yesterday as evidence that the protracted labor strife that rocked hotel chains across the state in 2005 can be avoided.

"This is a very good start for us in Los Angeles," said Maria Elena Durazo, secretary treasurer of the 800,000-member Los Angeles Federation of Labor. "The message is, follow the example set by the Beverly Hilton hotel and don't do what was done in 2005."

The last major wave of hotel labor negotiations was hobbled by an impasse over a desire by the union to line up the contracts to expire this year, so they could press prominent chains such as Starwood, Hyatt and Sheraton for wage and benefit gains on a national scale.

A contract dispute between seven Los Angeles-area hotels and their workers dragged on for a year, prompting worker strikes and boycotts in a bid to pressure the hotel operators.

Durazo credited the alignment of the hotel labor contracts with influencing the tone of negotiations with the Beverly Hilton.

"I believe the alignment has been necessary to get across the message to the hotel companies that we're coordinating our activities and our issues," Durazo said.

Contracts covering some 4,600 workers are set to expire this year at several other Los Angeles-area hotels.

Last month, union officials representing some 4,000 workers in San Francisco agreed on a tentative agreement with the operators of 13 hotels in the city. The five-year deal averted a strike and ended two years of tense negotiations.

In Hawai'i, labor contracts covering more than 5,500 employees at eight Waikiki hotels expired June 30. Union and hotel officials have been negotiating the terms of new contracts.