On July 22nd, about 1500 members of UNITE HERE! Local 2 and supporters demonstrated in San Francisco, culminating in a mass civil disobedience in front of the Grand Hyatt in Union Square. Police arrested 150 people in San Francisco and 10 at a similar demonstration at the Hyatt in Santa Clara.

Demonstrators stated that the Hyatt Hotel corporation is making millions of dollars by demanding that the hotel workers get locked into recession contracts that include layoffs and increased workloads. In both San Francisco and Santa Clara, the protests had significant support from other unions, as well as from social justice and anti-war organizations.

In addition to the actions at two Hyatt hotels in the Bay Area, demonstrators protested and risked arrest in Chicago, Honolulu, San Francisco, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Boston, Rosemont, Vancouver, Toronto, Miami, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, San Antonio, and San Diego on the same day.

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