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Stand with us! - The Union Employees of the Hyatt Regency Penn's Landing
Submitted by garybroderick on Wed, 10/17/2007 - 3:09am.
Dear friends,
On October 29th, 2007 we go back into bargaining with The Hyatt Corporation. We will be bargaining for our second Union contract and fighting to set a standard in the city for what it means to be a hotel worker.
We will demand that standard be a fair wage, full health care coverage for us as individuals and increasingly more coverage for our children and spouses, the ability to retire comfortably in addition to job security, being free from the harassment of unfair disciplinary action, and more control over our workplace.
In other parts of the city this standard is under attack, our Union brothers and sisters at the airport Embassy Suites have been out on the picket line everyday this past week refusing to accept the company’s stance that it will no longer take responsibility for it’s employees health care.
At The Hyatt Regency, because of our fighting, they are not in a position to propose cut backs, though they certainly have not given up their policies of under-paying, lying, and Union busting.
We have no illusions about their generosity, the will concede to us exactly what we have the power to demand.
Everyday we go to work, our Justice Committee has been working hard to build that power, it’s meant preparing petitions, doing delegations, and having hard conversations with co-workers about what it means to recognize our worth, respect ourselves, and stand together - what it means to be a Union.
But our power should not be limited to just how organized we are in the shop because this is not just about setting a standard for hotel workers, its about setting a standard for what it means to be a working person in Philadelphia.
We recognize a shared interest with many other communities in Philadelphia in demanding that TO DO BUSINESS IN PHILADELPHIA COMES WITH RESPONSIBILITY BEYOND PROFIT MAKING.
So it is with urgency that we ask you to lend your clenched fist and tell The Hyatt Corporation that they ought to take a respectful stance, because they are not just taking a position with the employees of The Hyatt Regency, but rather with a much broader community of working people, students, and activists who are prepared to fight.
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Thanks for the video,
Thanks for the video, Gary.
I think this was linked to before, but, Jane Von Bergen, of of the Inquirer, wrote an article in the summer talking about the Hytatt, and just how stressful to the body being a hotel housekeeper can be:
Please post updates
on the negotiations. I appreciate the video and a link to that Inquirer article. I remembered reading it back in June and being surprised at the seemingly easy accommodations hotels could do to to reduce injuries.