SAN FRANCISCO—Four hundred hotel workers at Hyatt Regency in San Francisco walked off the job early Tuesday morning to protest increased workloads and protracted negotiations to secure a new contract for 9,000 San Francisco hotel workers.
The walk out coincides with Hyatt’s first shareholder’s meeting as the company has significantly improved hospitality revenues and Hyatt’s share values have risen, according to UniteHere!Local2 worker’s union.
“We think that’s long enough. Hyatt’s growing and making more money every day, and we’re not going to stand by and let that come at the expense of workers and their families,” said Cynthia Reed, a telephone operator at Hyatt Regency.
All three of Hyatt’s San Francisco properties are now under worker-called boycotts.
Workers at Grand Hyatt located in the heart of San Francisco strike for the second time in recent months. Workers at Hyatt Regency in Chicago walked off their jobs in May to protest personnel shortage and workload increases.
On Wednesday, hundreds of workers are expected to walk out of their jobs and demonstrate simultaneously in San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, Honolulu, and Los Angeles, according to UniteHere! Local 2.
Issues include workload protections, maintaining affordable health benefits, securing retirement, and protecting the rights of non-union workers to form a union.
UniteHere! Local 2 represents 12,000 hospitality workers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Workers plan to return to the job on Friday morning.
The walk out coincides with Hyatt’s first shareholder’s meeting as the company has significantly improved hospitality revenues and Hyatt’s share values have risen, according to UniteHere!Local2 worker’s union.
“We think that’s long enough. Hyatt’s growing and making more money every day, and we’re not going to stand by and let that come at the expense of workers and their families,” said Cynthia Reed, a telephone operator at Hyatt Regency.
All three of Hyatt’s San Francisco properties are now under worker-called boycotts.
Workers at Grand Hyatt located in the heart of San Francisco strike for the second time in recent months. Workers at Hyatt Regency in Chicago walked off their jobs in May to protest personnel shortage and workload increases.
On Wednesday, hundreds of workers are expected to walk out of their jobs and demonstrate simultaneously in San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, Honolulu, and Los Angeles, according to UniteHere! Local 2.
Issues include workload protections, maintaining affordable health benefits, securing retirement, and protecting the rights of non-union workers to form a union.
UniteHere! Local 2 represents 12,000 hospitality workers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Workers plan to return to the job on Friday morning.
