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Hyatt Hotel Workers Under Attack-Unite Here Local 2 Picket Hyatt Burlingame SFO

by Labor Video Project
On 9/2/2010 Labor Day weekend, Local 2 Unite Here Hyatt Burlingame SFO hotel workers and their supporters picketed and protested the continuing attack on their conditions, wages and healthcare benefits by the Hyatt corporation. One of the owners Penny Hyatt is also a big supporter and advisor of President Obama and the workers discuss that as well. The Hyatt hotel workers also picketed in other cities in the United States.
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Hyatt Hotel Workers Under Attack-Unite Here Local 2 Picket Hyatt Burlingame SFO
2010 Labor Day weekend to protest the continuing attack by Hyatt management on their
On 9/2/2010 at Hyatt Burlingame at SFO, Unite Here Local 2 workers picketed the hotel on the
healthcare benefits and working conditions. In San Francisco the Hyatt hotel bosses with the
"Refresh Program" plan want to increase the housekeepers rooms to more than 25. They also
discussed the role of Penny Pritzker, who is one of the owners and also a supporter and economic
advisor to President Obama. For more information about this dispute go to
http://www.unitehere2.org/
More on Penny Pritzker at
"The Power of Penny Pritzker" Bloomberg's inside look at Obama's finance chair--business, family and politics
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/08/the_power_of_penny_pritzker_bl.html
Production of Labor Video Project, laborvideo.blip.tv http://www.laborvideo.org
§Penny Pritzker on left next to Obama
by Labor Video Project
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Hyatt union buster Penny Pritzker is a big supporter and economic advisor to President Clinton. President Clinton continues to have her as his advisor despite her vicious anti-labor attacks
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