Seattle Boycotts Hyatt while a Boston Boycott Ends

[Omaha Steve]

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http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2014/10/seattle-boycotts-hyatt-while-boston-boycott-ends

October 01, 2014 / Rolando Avila




Seattle hotel workers are boycotting a local Hyatt chain to get the owner to agree to a fair union vote. Photo: Rolando Avila. - See more at: http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2014/10/seattle-boycotts-hyatt-while-boston-boycott-ends#sthash.VkpkBeB6.dpuf


Just a few feet away from the dim entrance to the loading zone of the high-rise hotel, a crowd of 150 workers, students, community leaders, and union members has gathered. We’re here to lend support to the Seattle Hyatt hotel workers’ boycott.

The boycott rally is about a group of largely invisible and marginalized workers who are standing up together.

Unlike the many U.S. workers who won a four-year campaign to make the Hyatt hotel empire recognize their right to form unions, the workers at the Seattle Hyatt hotel chain have not been able to get their employer to agree.

That agreement created rules for both employers and unions during organizing drives at Hyatt-owned hotels, said Eunice How, an organizer with UNITE HERE Local 8. Workers got the deal by pressuring Hyatt through a series of rallies, strikes, workplace actions, community vigils, and a global boycott. Hyatt finally agreed to allow workers in several hotels to form unions without management intimidation.

- See more at: http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2014/10/seattle-boycotts-hyatt-while-boston-boycott-ends#sthash.VkpkBeB6.dpuf

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