Hyatt to Rehire Laid Off Boston Workers

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Independent Workers News

Submitted by Jesse Russell

Days after Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick threatened a boycott against Hyatt hotels the company issued a statement Friday saying 100 laid off workers would be offered new full time jobs. The new jobs will be provided until the end of 2010 and be through contractor United Services Company. The contractor will match the previous rates the workers received as Hyatt employees. According to the company the jobs were cut to address falling revenues.



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[Ian David]

1. Oh, man! I just bought 6,000 rolls of toilet paper to T.P. The Hyatt tonight!

Think the store will take them back?

[dflprincess]

18. Hang on to them

there's bound to be another outfit deserving of a good TPing.

[Ian David]

20. You were right!

Connecticut Attorney General Calls on At&T to Not Lay Off (2,500) Workers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=367x22940



That building will take a LOT of toilet paper!

[Brother Buzz]

48. We need to organize a TP Brigade

Count me in.

[knowbody0]

2. that's awesome

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. Woo Hoo!!!!!!

Hooray for the workers and all who stood with them!!!!

[myrna minx]

4. K&R n/t

[Captain Hilts]

5. HOLLLEEEEE Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gateley]

6. Damn government interference! nt

[WestSeattle2]

9. Can you imagine a repug governor doing that? Hell no.

[gateley]

25. Hell no is right! NEVER! And go Hawks!! nt

[Arctic Dave]

7. Hip Hip Hooray!

[Scurrilous]

8. Great news!

:thumbsup:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

10. Maybe I woo hooed too fast.. They actually are NOT rehiring them

The jobs will be through the contractor they ( the Hyatt) originally hired to replace them.

Will their senority and pay rates and benefits be the same? What will they lose by being hirees of the contractor and not the hotel like they originally were?

Prediction - They'll all be offed one by one.

[WestSeattle2]

12. Agreed. This is an action to deflect attention. Once the

cameras and news reporters are gone, the employees will be too. Let's check back in six months and see how many of the current employees still have jobs at the Hyatt.

[Liberal_in_LA]

38. +100, if they don't fire them, they'll harass them out of a job

[LuckyLib]

13. Ding ding ding! "Rehired" until the end of 2010. Hollow victory. And very temporary.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

14. It's a ruse -

calls off the dogs, quiets the outrage, and, ultimately, gets what they want.

No big victory here, not at all................

[gateley]

27. Then we'll have to notify Deval Patrick and update him -- we seem to let

things peter off too easily. Gotta be more vigilant.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

29. What was the old canard?

"Eternal vigilance in the defense of liberty is no vice"? Or something like it? I seem to remember Barry Goldwater saying something like this.

Barry was right. Eternal vigilance, indeed. Something can look awfully good at first blush, and then, like those driveways that the gypsies have simply painted black, not resurfaced - what you paid them to do - they turn out to be rather raw deals.

Unions, organizing. Now's the time..............................................

[No Elephants]

39. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Thomas Jefferson

http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/2283

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Barry Goldwater, acceptance speech as Republican candidate for President, 1963
US politician (1909 - 1998)

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/34605.html



Jefferson was teaching. Joe McCarthy's best buddy was defending hiself against well-founded charges of extremism.



P.S. FYI:


ca·nard (k-närd)
n.
1. An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.

2.
a. A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.
b. An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.



The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/canard

[Brickbat]

19. Sounds like a perfect opportunity organize the contractor.

I can see the other employees being annoyed that they're doing the same job for less than the Hyatt subcontractors. Organize them all.

[ovidsen]

35. Given that "little" detail, I'll continue to boycott Hyatt.

I don't care if I have to sleep in my car. I'll never do business with Hyatt again.

[appamado amata padam]

11. Haha, I wonder if somebody's losing their

cushy bonuses because of this.

[obxhead]

15. so let me get this straight

They had to fire these people due to falling revenues.

Now they will rehire these people, through a contractor, which has promised them their original wages. So now the Hyatt will pay an even higher wage to maintain these jobs.

hmmmm.

[Barack_America]

16. Sounds like the Hyatt CEO has spent time in the Pentagon.

:eyes:

[WestSeattle2]

21. Original wages, not benefits. Hyatt could conceivably save

25-30% depending on what the benefit package was.

Alaska Airlines did something very similar to their baggage handlers a few years ago. Laid them all off, brought in the contractor, contractor rehired the laid off workers at a reduced wage with fewer benefits.

[RoyGBiv]

22. Timely note ...

What this means is, if they had health insurance, either they no longer have it, or Hyatt isn't paying for it. I don't know if they did, but it would be one thing that would motivate the company to act this way.

[katandmoon]

17. Big whoop. They will now be CONTRACTORS and I bet they get no benefits. The boycott needs to begin.

[RoyGBiv]

23. Curious ...

Why did that small piece not mention the cab drivers acting in solidarity. Personally, I would have led with that, especially given the apparent thrust of the website.

[Brickbat]

24. Time to organize United Services Company -- those other, $8-an-hour workers should be easy to sign

when they see that it's possible to make more doing the same job.

[BunkerHill24]

26. Boycott works...again!

K&R

[8 track mind]

28. Ok guys you just got rehired..... Now unionize!!!!!!!

[npk]

30. This has nothing to do with pay. It has to do with benefits.

Namely health care benefits. The Hyatt didn't want to pay the increased heath care costs submitted by the union. So they fired the housekeepers and hired workers from a temporary staffing agency in Georgia. Why? Because they don't have to provide the workers from the staffing company with any kind of benefits, because those employees don't work for the Hyatt. They work for the Staffing Company in Georgia. So the Hyatt gets all the benefits of the housekeepers work, without having to fork out any benefits or provide expensive health care coverage. That's what this was all about.

[DirtyDawg]

31. I tried to check on the Georgia staffing company...

...their web-site claims that they are a 'women-owned' company providing staff to the hospitality industry in a number of states across the country. At the same time the only information that was readily available about their management was that their three top principals were all white guys in the reddest county (Cobb), in the reddest state (Georgia), in the reddest region (Here) of the country. What they didn't say about themselves is that they provide health benefits for their many, part-time I assume, workers...of course not.

Just pass the damn Public Option and all this human-being shell-game crap will become unnecessary.

[No Elephants]

40. Oh, great. By pretending to be women owned (and controlled), they get preference in

contracting on jobs in which local, state or federal government is involved; and the Hyatt gets points for hiring the company if it is involved in any affirmative action program or has to justify its contracting/hiring practices to anyone, public or private

Someone should report those good ole boys to their state's office of minority and women owned businesses and to the federal governent.

[No Elephants]

41. Bingo. No sick time or vacation or anything like that either. Meanwhile, I bet

the staffing company gets away wih cheating the employees, too.

[tomm2thumbs]

32. congrats to all those who stepped up

[gristy]

33. As others have recognized, Hyatt is not rehiring them. Hyatt will not be paying their salary.

United Services Company is hiring them. Big difference.

[Liberal_in_LA]

37. yep, as soon as we aren't paying attention, they'll fire them or drop pay to $8 per hour

[DainBramaged]

34. Hyatt is scum, they don't give a shit about Black workers.

I'd stay in a bus station before I'd stay at a Hyatt property again.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

45. What??? "they don't give a shit about Black worker" Not ALL of them are Black!

and some are Brown and White. Color has nothing to do with this. It's Hyatt'$...

[DainBramaged]

46. Hyatt doesn't give a shit about about Black, Brown, Yellow, Purple, Blue or White service workers

Happy now? Jesus, do the correctness police hire daily here?

On edit. OR RED either........

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

50. Well....

YES, I AM HAPPY NOW !!!

:silly::silly:

[LoZoccolo]

36. nm n/t

[No Elephants]

42. Hyatt Boston exploits women, too. If you went to the area where they

served drinks, the women were young, shapely, etc. and HAD to wear the job "uniform," which consisted of a skirt slit slightly off center to crotch level. So, when they bent at the knees to place the drinks on the low tables....

I'm guessing the pay was for shit, despite the humiliation.


Now, some of you mmay be thinking, "Gee, I have to remember to stop at the Hyatt for a drink if I ever get to Boston." To you, I say, imagine if your daughter was forced to do that to pay her rent.

I think the Pritzker family still owns all the Hyatts.

Disgusting.

[TommyO]

43. This is good news, but it's still not the best

Do the jobs come with the benefits that the housekeeping staff had before being dumped by Hyatt? Will their 401K contributions continue? The jobs will be provided only until the end of 2010, what then?

[treestar]

44. What is to happen in the event of falling revenues?

I don't have enough to hire anyone. If I did, how do you force me to hire someone rather than spend the money to say go to Hawaii?

The solution is to quit making it hard to do business here.

[Doremus]

47. Don't fall for it. As soon as they're able those jobs will be cut.

[Ruby the Liberal]

49. So they are paying more than before by having a middleman

Sorry, this isn't good news at all. The workers will be screwn one way or another. Harassed out of a job, no sick pay, no vacation, no benefits - the cuts have to be made somewhere.

[Cha]

51. Way to help people Gov Patrick!

If the workers were let go to address falling revenues..how were they able to hire them back?