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9th September 2011, 12:52
Hyatt workers on strike - take action now!
This week, thousands of Hyatt hotel workers in four cities nationwide--Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Honolulu—are on strike. They are on strike not only to win a fair contract at their own hotels, but to take a stand against Hyatt's abuse of hotel workers in cities across the country.
Tell Hyatt to stop abusing workers!
Join a picket line in the cities where workers are on strike
Send a message of solidarity to Hyatt workers
Boycott these Hyatt Hotels
Hyatt has abused its housekeepers, replacing career housekeepers with minimum wage temporary workers and imposing dangerous workloads on those housekeepers who remain. Take for example Boston, where Hyatt fired its entire housekeeping staff at three non-union hotels, replacing women who had worked at Hyatt for decades with temporary workers earning minimum wage. Hyatt even turned heat lamps on striking workers in Chicago during a brutal heat wave this July.
The people who clean, staff and help make Hyatt Hotels successful are simply seeking protections on the job.
We heard from Hyatt worker Cathy Youngblood at the JwJ National Conference in August. Today she and her coworkers are on strike not just for a fair contract at their hotels, but for the right to stand up to Hyatt wherever they are abusing housekeepers. Cathy says:
I believe in hard work, but living in pain is a different story. I have to take medication regularly because my wrists and shoulders hurt from having to lift 100-pound mattresses over and over again every day as I change the bedding. Other Hyatt housekeepers have been permanently injured by the grueling work we do.
Not far from my hotel in West Hollywood, at the Hyatt in Long Beach, California, workers have no union. Conditions there are even worse. My sisters are required to clean twice as many rooms in one eight-hour shift, leaving them just 15 minutes for each room. That's 15 minutes to change bedding, scrub the bathroom, dust, vacuum, empty the trash, and change linens, among other things. It's no surprise that women are getting hurt.
TAKE ACTION NOW TO SUPPORT HYATT HOUSEKEEPERS!
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This week, thousands of Hyatt hotel workers in four cities nationwide--Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Honolulu—are on strike. They are on strike not only to win a fair contract at their own hotels, but to take a stand against Hyatt's abuse of hotel workers in cities across the country.
Tell Hyatt to stop abusing workers!
Join a picket line in the cities where workers are on strike
Send a message of solidarity to Hyatt workers
Boycott these Hyatt Hotels
Hyatt has abused its housekeepers, replacing career housekeepers with minimum wage temporary workers and imposing dangerous workloads on those housekeepers who remain. Take for example Boston, where Hyatt fired its entire housekeeping staff at three non-union hotels, replacing women who had worked at Hyatt for decades with temporary workers earning minimum wage. Hyatt even turned heat lamps on striking workers in Chicago during a brutal heat wave this July.
The people who clean, staff and help make Hyatt Hotels successful are simply seeking protections on the job.
We heard from Hyatt worker Cathy Youngblood at the JwJ National Conference in August. Today she and her coworkers are on strike not just for a fair contract at their hotels, but for the right to stand up to Hyatt wherever they are abusing housekeepers. Cathy says:
I believe in hard work, but living in pain is a different story. I have to take medication regularly because my wrists and shoulders hurt from having to lift 100-pound mattresses over and over again every day as I change the bedding. Other Hyatt housekeepers have been permanently injured by the grueling work we do.
Not far from my hotel in West Hollywood, at the Hyatt in Long Beach, California, workers have no union. Conditions there are even worse. My sisters are required to clean twice as many rooms in one eight-hour shift, leaving them just 15 minutes for each room. That's 15 minutes to change bedding, scrub the bathroom, dust, vacuum, empty the trash, and change linens, among other things. It's no surprise that women are getting hurt.
TAKE ACTION NOW TO SUPPORT HYATT HOUSEKEEPERS!
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