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Strike at San Francisco's Grand Hyatt
Shares of Hyatt Hotels Corporation rose sharply Thursday with the hotel chain's first day on the New York Stock Exchange. Christmas decorations are in full swing in the windows of the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco, but there is no merry holiday season in sight for those who toil to keep tourists and business visitors happy in the tony surroundings.
Photos by Steve Rhodes under Creative Commons License
Photos by Steve Rhodes under Creative Commons License
Hotel workers walked off the job yesterday morning at the Grand Hyatt Union Square in San Francisco, starting a 3-day strike against the hotel. One issue is funding for health care of the housekeepers, cooks, dishwashers, bellpersons, servers, bartenders, and other workers who help make San Francisco a world renowned and welcoming city. In ongoing negotiations hotel management refuses to pay the money necessary so that workers can be assured of good health for themselves and their families.
Two weeks ago members of Unite Here Local 2 voted by over 92% to authorize strikes at any of 31 upscale hotel properties in San Francisco. Workers at the Grand Hyatt plan to return to work on Sunday.
Hyatt continues to pursue profit at any price. In Boston Hyatt recently fired all housekeepers at its three non-union hotels. They replaced them with workers paid about half of what the fired workers had earned. Meanwhile, the company’s CEO was paid $6.7 million in compensation in 2008, and its chairman received a bonus of $1.4 million.
Planning to stay at a hotel in San Francisco? Please honor the ongoing boycott at the Grand Hyatt.
Two weeks ago members of Unite Here Local 2 voted by over 92% to authorize strikes at any of 31 upscale hotel properties in San Francisco. Workers at the Grand Hyatt plan to return to work on Sunday.
Hyatt continues to pursue profit at any price. In Boston Hyatt recently fired all housekeepers at its three non-union hotels. They replaced them with workers paid about half of what the fired workers had earned. Meanwhile, the company’s CEO was paid $6.7 million in compensation in 2008, and its chairman received a bonus of $1.4 million.
Planning to stay at a hotel in San Francisco? Please honor the ongoing boycott at the Grand Hyatt.
For more information:
http://www.unitehere2.org/
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To end the discrimination politically, economically, judicially, militarily, and religiously, a workers state is necessary because the bosses have subverted all the above categories and initiated an aggressive discrimination war on the workers and their needs for a first claim on the value added by their creation of the countries wealth each and every year. Viva socialist liberation. End pollution wars, not endless wars for more pollution.
Instead of almost useless consumer boycotts (How many ordinary working people can afford a $200 a night room at the Grand Hyatt ? Let alone your typical indybay reader ! ) how about a all out indefinte strike ! With all Hotel workers , whether Local 2 , Stationary Engineers , and Teamster desk clerks walking the line.
And if they try to run scabs thru the picket lines How about actually imitating the actions of the 34 General strike instead of just rhetorical trips down memory lane ?
My two cents .
And if they try to run scabs thru the picket lines How about actually imitating the actions of the 34 General strike instead of just rhetorical trips down memory lane ?
My two cents .
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