BOYCOTT HYATT HOTELS!!
Hyatt told housekeepers they were training vacation fill-ins, then fired them for minimum wage replacements
Photos, video of arrests at Boston rally
Hyatt Bans Media from 1st Shareholders Meeting
Over the past year, Hyatt's stock is up 40% and its housekeepers' wages are down 50%. Does this seem fair to you? The latest news is that Hyatt banned journalists from its shareholder meeting. Here's a pretty good segment from (of all places) Fox News. You may have to wait 15 seconds through an ad to see this. Also, here is an article on the protests held outside the meeting.
Several updates on the Hyatt Boycott
A recent story in Cambridge Day covers Cambridge's April 5th City Council Order in support of the Hyatt 100. Also, earlier this month New England Cable News ran this story on April 2nd about the Hyatt 100 and their situations since August 31st '09. Former Hyatt housekeeper Lucine Williams and Boston Globe Reporter Katie Johnson Chase appear in the story.
It should also be noted that Hyatt Hotels won the Scrooge of the Year award from Jobs with Justice which aptly observed that, "While workers get the short end of the stick, Hyatt and its owners enjoyed a $1 billion pay day on November 5 when they cashed in on the initial public offering of Hyatt stock."
On March 31st, the Suffolk Journal reported that Suffolk University will no longer use Hyatt to house students, as the school has in two prior years.
Hotel workers' cause deserves our support
This letter appeared earlier in the week in the San Francisco Chronicle. It was written on behalf of hotel workers in San Francisco, but applies equally to the Hyatt 100 of Boston:
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/25/EDVM1BN9UV.DTL#ixzz0e3o0gD5T
Rabbi delegation petitions Hyatt to rehire Boston Housekeepers
From the Chicago Tribune..."Hyatt hasn't just insulted their workers, they've insulted the Torah, say more than 200 rabbis and cantors across the country who've signed a petition calling on the Chicago-based hotel chain to rehire 98 Boston housekeepers who were fired and replaced with cheaper, outsourced labor in August."link: Rabbi delegation petitions Hyatt to rehire Boston housekeepers - chicagotribune.com
No Comfort at the Hyatt
From the Boston Globe. Thanks to Union Librarian for sending this link.
"PASSAGES FROM Deuteronomy (“You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer’’) are about to rain down on executives of the Hyatt Hotels Corp., who stubbornly refuse to rehire 98 housekeepers fired in August."
link: No comfort at the Hyatt - The Boston Globe
Great article in MIT's The Tech newspaper on 11/17
"In order for a boycott to be effective, the Hyatt must know that you choose to avoid it because of how they have treated their workers."
link: MIT’s Obligation to the Hyatt’s Workers - The Tech
Resolution from the Progressive Librarians Guild
Progressive Librarians Guild opposes the actions of the Hyatt
Company
Be it hereby resolved that the Progressive Librarians Guild
opposes the actions of the Hyatt Company for its mass firing of
housekeepers in Boston and Cambridge. We also oppose the
actions of the Hyatt Company for having regular employees train
temporary employees to cover for regular employees' vacations,
then use those newly trained temporary employees to
permanently replace the regular employees.
We urge all librarians to avoid using Hyatt facilities during the
2010 Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association.
Approved by the Progressive Librarians Guild. Coordinating
Committee. October 14, 2009.
http://libr.org/plg/boycotthyatt.php
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