Meet the Workers

Antonia Cortez

Antonia Cortez, Housekeeper, San Francisco

My name is Antonia Cortez, and I have worked at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco for 35 years. The first time I realized how important my union benefits are was in 1983, when I was diagnosed with leukemia. Because of my union-negotiated contract, my healthcare plan covered the operation and my treatments. I survived and was able to return to work. I realized then that healthcare and pension are more valuable even than wages. Now, after 35 years of working the same difficult tasks over and over, I have chronic pain in my shoulders and elbows. I worry that I will have pain and health issues for the rest of my life. I want to help workers at non-union Hyatts to have pension and healthcare benefits because I know they experience the same pain I do.


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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