A living wage

Sun, Sep 20 2009 08:28 | living wage | Permalink
This data comes from Penn State and is worth a look, especially considering that Hyatt's now outsourced housekeepers are likely to receive minimum wage with no benefits. The Boston City Council's Living Wage Ordinance recognizes a living wage in Boston as $12.79 per hour.

So clearly not everyone earns a living wage. Those women who spent full days cleaning hotel rooms and dealing with bodily fluids and other health hazards for as long as 20 years deserved better from Hyatt managers than to be lied to, fired, and shown their work wasn't worth more than the bare minimum to the company.

It's mind boggling that a luxury hotel chain like Hyatt doesn't rank housekeeping (clean rooms) above minimum wage, not even close to a living wage.

Please sign the petition if you haven't already. Ask your friends to sign it. Just use the Share This button on the main page and help this thing go viral to that Hyatt will consider a change of heart.

Lastly, please call Hyatt consumer affairs at (800) 323-7249, Ext: 3445 to complain. Clearly money is the most important thing to Hyatt. So just politely let the company know they won't receive any more of yours.


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