A Call on Hyatt to Add a Hotel Worker to the Board of Directors

We call on Hyatt’s Board of Directors to adopt the following resolution:

Whereas, Hyatt’s workers are the key to the corporation’s success by virtue of their knowledge, skills and commitment to excellent guest services;

Whereas, Hyatt can improve its service by diminished use of temporary, subcontracted workers earning minimum wages and without benefits and by a reduction in housekeeper workloads from as many as 30 rooms per day which contribute to higher injury rates;

Whereas, Hyatt’s corporate governance guidelines call for Directors with ‘judgment, character, expertise, skills and knowledge useful to the oversight of Hyatt’s business’ who exemplify a ‘diversity of viewpoints, backgrounds and experiences’;

Whereas, Hyatt Hotel Corporation’s Board of Directors contains only two women and one person of color and is not reflective of the diversity or experience of Hyatt’s workforce;

Therefore, be it resolved that Hyatt should increase the size of its board by one director and should reserve that seat for a Hyatt hotel worker as a positive step for the company, its employees and its customers.


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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