BOYCOTT HYATT HOTELS!!
Hyatt told housekeepers they were training vacation fill-ins, then fired them for minimum wage replacements
BOYCOTT HYATT HOTELS!!
Too long for the main page, from Culver City, CA
This signature came in from Eric C. Jacobson, Public Interest Lawyer in Culver City, CA. It was too long for the main page and is posted here in full.
Extreme inequality is to the 21st century what slavery was to the 19th century: the preeminent moral and political crisis of our time. In the 1850s the issue was whether the morally evil institution of slavery would be allowed to expand continent-wide. Today the issue is whether the moral blight (in a nation of persons created equal) of already extreme inequality will be allowed to get any worse. We need a Constitutional Amendment to ban any action (such as this one by Hyatt) that worsens already extreme inequality one iota. We new extreme inequality abolitionists first need to stop it (class stratification) from worsening, then gradually lessen it to a reasonable gap appropriate to a healthy social democratic society. (We can debate what the maximum ratio of rich to poor should be.) To accomplish our goals, we need to found a new (near single issue) pro-equality political party. The completely sold out and kaput Democratic Party must be sent the way of the Whigs as soon as possible, and the way paved for a new Abraham Lincoln.
Petition signature, too long for main page
This petition signature came in this afternoon, but was too long for the main page. It's shown in full here.
Robert Campbell, Boston
As disillusioned as a large number of Local 26 Hotel Union workers have been over the past years, I have to say I am proud of the way they have stepped up to stand by these victims of corporate stupidity and greed! As distant as the union has become to its members due to greed of its own, when push comes to shove, they are a strong and unbeatable unit when they apply themselves. The workers are lucky to have them standing side by side against the amazing immorality of Hyatt's decisions. Even if they give the workers their jobs back, they are only doing it out of pressure from the community and not out of respect or righting a wrong. Regardless of what they do now, Hyatt is a dead entity to myself and to everyone I have spoken to. We will continue to spread this story and help dismantle an archaic company. With so much competition, I pray for the workers to start looking for real jobs at businesses that find realistic and moral ways of dealing with economic instability. Short of Firing all management involved in this, Hyatt is dead. This is why we still have unions, whether they have forgotten about their loyal members or not, they pull together when it comes time for a just fight. Thank you Gov. Patrick for stepping up to the plate, but where the hell has Mayor Menino been? I would think it would be in his heart to step up also and protect citizens against corporate abuse... if not in your heart mayor, then perhaps for political reasons, as every vote is earned and not handed due to years of complacency, there is enough of that in Local 26. This will be a great chapter in Hotel management courses in college on how a Corporate machine can be dismantled when they lose site of humanity. God Bless The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel who during the toughest times of the recession did everything in their power, and with a great amount of thought and creativity, found ways to cut cost here and their, thought outside of the box to assure top quality care for the guest, but more importantly, protected the jobs of the loyal people.. yes Hyatt... people, not just print on a paycheck, and promised not to layoff but maybe one or two people, because the management at the Fairmont has heart and integrity which keeps some of the best employees in boston providing top notch, caring service. Hyatt management.. listen up.. If your going to act like a machine, bloodless computer.. then surely you understand.. you can only get out what you input... You have hit the "send" button.. and now you have received a well deserved Virus! When the machine crashes due to bad operators,, you not only have to overhaul the machine... but fire the inept operators.. Move on Hyatt... The United States is not for you... but dont give up.. I hear Kadafi is looking for a hotel that will put him up.. who needs more than one Hotel really... Libyan Hyatt Tents inc.... has a nice ring to it. He makes sense like you do... will make a great boss to your hierarchy!
If Hyatt really needs to save money...
This came in on the petition page and was a bit too long to fit, but deserves to be shown in full.
Scott Enk, Hales Corner, Wisconsin:
At Boston's Hyatt Hotel, as is the case with so many employers in America's perversely, deliberately job-scarce, low-wage economy created over the last 30 years or so, the prevailing watchword for employees is now "Work hard, and you will be rewarded -- with a pink slip."
What sort of "thinking" do employers like Hyatt in Boston engage in when they lay off their best and most experienced workers in a shortsighted effort to save a few bucks?
If Hyatt really needs to save money, it should start by cutting its top executives' salaries, perks, powers--and egos. And don't forget outsourcing top executives' jobs to cheaper employees--how about to an elected committee of rank-and-file workers? They surely could do a much better job for less money than the pigs on top get. Now *that* would truly be a productive "adjustment of cost structures" and "rightsizing."
*To get loyalty, one must first give loyalty.* By unilaterally shredding the "social contract" that guided employment relations throughout most of America from the New Deal era until the time of Ronald Reagan, greedy, out-of-control employers like Hyatt are continuing not only the destruction of America's middle class, but America itself.
Shame on you, Hyatt. Don't laugh. People in America who believe as I do are everywhere. We are outraged at what we've been seeing happen to our once-beautiful country, our economy, and our living standards, especially since the early 1980s and Ronald Reagan, and even more so under George W. Bush.
Bet on it--we *do* write our lawmakers and the news media, post things like this online, talk with our families, friends, and others, and, above all, *take into account employers' actions when we decide whose products and services we will or won't buy--or recommend*.
Until and unless Hyatt rehires the housekeepers it recently laid off in Boston, with full back pay and seniority, I will do all I lawfully can (1) to avoid doing business with Hyatt and (2) to urge others to consider the facts when making any decision as to hotels.
We, the working people of America, have a right to stable, decent jobs that will not be sacrificed to corporate incompetence and greed.
Let's make Hyatt the ground on which we, America's sovereign workers, finally take our stand and take back our country, our economy, our rights, and our futures.
To Mark S. Hoplamizian and his out-of-touch pals in their comfy executive suites, I say: Got that? Change your ways *now*.
What sort of "thinking" do employers like Hyatt in Boston engage in when they lay off their best and most experienced workers in a shortsighted effort to save a few bucks?
If Hyatt really needs to save money, it should start by cutting its top executives' salaries, perks, powers--and egos. And don't forget outsourcing top executives' jobs to cheaper employees--how about to an elected committee of rank-and-file workers? They surely could do a much better job for less money than the pigs on top get. Now *that* would truly be a productive "adjustment of cost structures" and "rightsizing."
*To get loyalty, one must first give loyalty.* By unilaterally shredding the "social contract" that guided employment relations throughout most of America from the New Deal era until the time of Ronald Reagan, greedy, out-of-control employers like Hyatt are continuing not only the destruction of America's middle class, but America itself.
Shame on you, Hyatt. Don't laugh. People in America who believe as I do are everywhere. We are outraged at what we've been seeing happen to our once-beautiful country, our economy, and our living standards, especially since the early 1980s and Ronald Reagan, and even more so under George W. Bush.
Bet on it--we *do* write our lawmakers and the news media, post things like this online, talk with our families, friends, and others, and, above all, *take into account employers' actions when we decide whose products and services we will or won't buy--or recommend*.
Until and unless Hyatt rehires the housekeepers it recently laid off in Boston, with full back pay and seniority, I will do all I lawfully can (1) to avoid doing business with Hyatt and (2) to urge others to consider the facts when making any decision as to hotels.
We, the working people of America, have a right to stable, decent jobs that will not be sacrificed to corporate incompetence and greed.
Let's make Hyatt the ground on which we, America's sovereign workers, finally take our stand and take back our country, our economy, our rights, and our futures.
To Mark S. Hoplamizian and his out-of-touch pals in their comfy executive suites, I say: Got that? Change your ways *now*.
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