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For Shavuot: Solidarity With Women Workers at Hyatt

Just in time for the Jewish festival of Shavuot, I strongly commend to you “Poverty, Chesed and Justice,” a text study just released by T’ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights together with Justice ...

President Obama nominates Penny Pritzker to Commerce Secretary

UNITE HERE Calls on Hyatt to Fill Vacancy on Hyatt Board with a Hotel Worker WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday President Barack Obama nominated Penny Pritzker to be Commerce Secretary, a role that ...

Texas Demcratic Party Stands With Hyatt Housekeepers

The Texas Democratic Party stands in solidarity with UNITE HERE’s 250,000 members and the Hyatt Housekeepers. The TDP joins progressives groups such as the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, the National Stonewall ...

Nation’s Top Hispanic Civil Rights Groups Join Global Boycott of Hyatt Hotels

Groups join growing list of supporters urging Hyatt to improve substandard working conditions for housekeeping staff WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the Mexican American ...

Hyatt penalizes LGBTQ organization for backing boycott

Hyatt demands steep penalty fee from LGBT nonprofit for supporting workers’ rights [New York, NY] – After learning about the worker-called global boycott of Hyatt Hotels, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, ...

Hyatt settles complaint alleging unfair labor practices

The Hyatt Regency Baltimore has settled a federal complaint alleging unfair labor practices, the hotel and a local union said Thursday. The agreement, signed Wednesday, came nine days after a National ...

State regulators respond to Hyatt on repetitive motion injuries

The Guardian received a phone call from Amy Martin, chief counsel of the California Occupational Safety & Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) this morning in response to our article spotlighting Cal/OSHA’s ...

Hyatt agrees to job hazard analysis in settlement

The settlement stemmed from a set of citations issued by Cal/OSHA in November of 2011, following a regulatory investigation launched in response to worker complaints filed one year earlier.

Hyatt ‘Not Kosher’: Rabbis, Union Push For Reform

Rabbis and Jewish organizations are calling Hyatt Hotels Corporation “unkosher” for what they say are unfair labor practices. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the Central Conference ...

Aiming High: Hyatt Housekeepers Seek to Join Hotel’s Corporate Board

While Michigan workers gained attention by protesting their state legislature’s right-to-work law this week, in Illinois, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts housekeepers are aiming for a largely untested (at ...
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