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National Immigrant Rights Groups Back Hyatt Boycotts

Dec 20th, 2011

From December 15-17, 2011, representatives of immigrant rights organizations across the United States went to Montgomery, Alabama to take part in the Immigration National Convention, organized by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement.

Jose Guevara, a longtime employee at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Rosemont, IL, joined sisters Martha and Lorena Reyes to share their stories of hardship and struggle at Hyatt.  Guevara spoke about how Hyatt had threatened to cut workers healthcare benefits.  The Reyes sisters shared their story of how Hyatt had fired them after Martha objected to the posting of sexually suggestive photos of herself and her sister on a company bulletin board.

Hearing these stories, over 100 participants and organizations pledged to honor the Hyatt boycotts, including:

  • Promise Arizona
  • Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
  • Florida Immigrant Coalition
  • Center for Community Change
  • New Organizing Institute
  • NY Immigration Coalition
  • Voces de La Frontera, Wisconsin
  • CHIRLA

The call to "Boycott Hyatt" does not include the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa and the Grand Hyatt Kauai, which have current collective bargaining agreements with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union; The Hyatt Regency Montreal, which has a contract with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN); the Hyatt Regeny Milwaukee and the Hyatt Regency Cleveland at the Arcade, which have contracts with SEIU; and does not include the following Hyatt hotels with current UNITE HERE collective bargaining agreements: Grand Hyatt New York, Andaz 5th Avenue, Andaz Wall Street, Hyatt Hotel (Highway One Monterey), Hyatt Regency Monterey, Hyatt Penn's Landing (Philadelphia), Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina, Hyatt Regency on King (Toronto), Park Hyatt Toronto, Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Hyatt Rosemont, Hyatt Place San Jose, Hyatt Place Braintree (MA), Hyatt Carmel Highlands Inn, and Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, the non-opened Park Hyatts in New York, the non-opened Portland Oregon Convention Center Hyatt Hotel, the Hyatt Regency Long Beach, the Hyatt The Pike Long Beach.

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