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DESCRIPTION:Hundreds of Housekeepers Lead March in Solidarity with Boston 100 Hyatt 
 Workers; Raise Awareness of Workplace Abuses\n \nSixty Foot “Hope 
 Quilt” on its 2nd Leg on 7-City National Tour\n \nWHAT: \nNearly 350 
 hotel workers and housekeepers will be joined by prominent women leaders, 
 students, community and clergy leaders on an all-day Bay Area tour from 
 Santa Clara Hyatt via the Hyatt Regency San Francisco to Grand Hyatt San 
 Francisco, carrying the “Hope Quilt” in its 2nd leg in the 7-city 
 “Hope for Housekeepers” National Tour.\n \nWHO: \nFiona Ma, California 
 State Assembly Member\nAnd over 300 hotel housekeepers, religious leaders, 
 students and community members\n \nWHEN & WHERE: \nWednesday, October 7, 
 2009, 6:00AM-6:00PM\nSunrise Action: 6AM – 7AM: Bay Area Quilt Tour 
 Launch at Santa Clara Hyatt, 5101 Great American Pky.\nAfternoon 
 Delegation: 12PM – 1PM: “Hope for Housekeepers” Quilt delegation at 
 San Francisco’s Hyatt Regency, 5 Embarcadero Center\nSunset Action:  4PM 
 – 6PM: “Hope for Housekeepers” Rally and March at San Francisco’s 
 Grand Hyatt, 345 Stockton Street\n \nPress Availability: 6AM at Santa Clara 
 Hyatt and 4PM at the Grand Hyatt, San Francisco. \n \nWHY:\n“Hope for 
 Housekeepers” is a national movement of women, founded by Hyatt 
 housekeepers across the country to stop the abuse of women in the hotel 
 industry and bring a message of hope to fellow Hyatt housekeepers and the 
 thousands of women working as housekeepers across the globe. \n \nPerhaps 
 the most public example of Hyatt’s abuse is discarding women like the 
 Boston Hyatt 100 housekeepers, who were fired after training their 
 replacements from an outsourcing agency. “This movement represents the 
 national outcry against Hyatt’s abuse; whether it be in Boston, Chicago 
 or San Francisco, we will stand together,” said Antonia Cortez, a 
 housekeeper at the Grand Hyatt for 34 years.\n \nHyatt housekeepers are 
 organizing a seven-city tour, starting in Long Beach and ending in Chicago, 
 featuring the symbol of their movement -- the Hope Quilt.  This quilt 
 stitches together the stories of Hyatt housekeepers and the pain they 
 endure everyday just to provide for their families. Each patch symbolizes a 
 story of pain, injury, and even death or miscarriage brought upon by the 
 heavy burden of their workloads.  \n \nHyatt housekeepers often clean up to 
 30 hotel rooms a day in just eight hours, and many forgo health insurance 
 for their families because of the high cost.  Hyatt is also slashing jobs, 
 like the Boston Hyatt 100, while in 2008 it spent $4 million annually on 
 private aircraft expenses. \n\nUNITE HERE! Local 2 is the union of hotel 
 and food service workers in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. It 
 represents about 12,000 workers in the hospitality industry. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/07/18624734.php
SUMMARY:Housekeepers Lead March with "Hope Quilt" against Hyatt Abuses
LOCATION:Please meet at the front entrance of the Grand Hyatt San Francisco (on the 
 corner of Stockton and Sutter)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/07/18624734.php
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