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“Our Pain, Their Gain” – New report on the extreme working conditions that create profit for Seattle-area hotel companies

May 1st, 2012

A new report from Puget Sound Sage–a coalition of community, labor and faith organizations in the Seattle area–outlines the hotel industry in the region from the perspective of the workers who make it run.

The report features a thorough analysis of the trends in the industry: poverty earnings and increasing workload for hotel workers, and increasing profitability with public subsidies for hotel corporations.

The report also spotlights a number of individual hotel workers, including Jian Hua Wu, a housekeeper at a non-union hotel.  Jian says, “I played professional basketball in China for 5 years, then had a career selling medicine to doctors [pharmaceutical sales], so I know how to take care of my body…. I had no idea before I started how hard the work would be.”


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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