Hotel Housekeepers Protest Hyatt
Thousands of hotel workers protested Thursday at Hyatt hotels in nine cities. UNITEHERE! says Hyatt is abusing housekeepers by cutting jobs, replacing experienced employees with minimum wage temporary workers and imposing dangerous workloads on the remaining housekeepers.
Reform Rabbis Support Hyatt Workers
Ross Hyman, a research analyst for the AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research, shares this info.
The world’s largest group of Jewish clergy, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), is calling on the owners and leadership of Hyatt Hotels to commit to the Jewish and universal obligations to treat workers fairly and to recognize the value of their labor. The clergy are asking “all Jewish institutions and individuals to support Hyatt workers in their disputes.”
