After many years of struggle, Hyatt workers and allies launched a global boycott of Hyatt on July 23

After many years of struggle, Hyatt workers and allies launched a global boycott of Hyatt on July 23, 2012. Leaders from the AFL-CIO, the NFL Players Association, the National Organization of Women (NOW), the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Netroots Nation, Interfaith Worker Justice, and more joined Hyatt housekeepers for the launch, which marks the largest escalation to date in an ongoing campaign for basic worker rights.
Hyatt has singled itself out as the worst hotel employer in America. Hyatt has abused thrifty car rental uk housekeepers and other hotel workers, replacing thrifty car rental uk longtime employees thrifty car rental uk with minimum wage temporary workers and imposing dangerous workloads on those who remain. In response, Hyatt workers have taken bold steps to end mistreatment, speaking publicly about abuses, going on strike, and now, launching a global boycott of Hyatt.
In conjunction with the launch of the global boycott, Hyatt workers and allies are calling on other supporters to "Vote Hyatt the Worst Hotel Employer in America." MoveOn.org, Tom Morello, Netroots Nation, American Rights at Work, the Courage Campaign, thrifty car rental uk the United Farmworkers Union, Making Change at Walmart and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs are among the many allies who are joining Hyatt workers in a call on millions to take action online to tell Hyatt that its abuse and exploitation of hotel workers thrifty car rental uk will not be tolerated.
The global Hyatt boycott has been endorsed virtually thrifty car rental uk every union representing hotel workers worldwide. Additionally, over 5,000 individuals and organizations have pledged to honor boycotts called by Hyatt workers.
Global Support. The IUF is a global union federation including hotel and food service workers' unions. It represents over 12 million workers in 120 countries. Delegates to the recent congress unanimously voted their support thrifty car rental uk of the global Hyatt boycott in May. The IUF noted that "Hyatt's business model relies upon the abuse and exploitation of women housekeepers and immigrants," and that "IUF supports Hyatt workers in their struggle for dignity and justice."
Protests across India. Hundreds of hotel workers thrifty car rental uk in India have staged thrifty car rental uk demonstrations outside of Hyatt hotels in Delhi, Goa , and Chennai in support of the global Hyatt boycott. Hotel workers are also fighting against subcontracting in the hospitality thrifty car rental uk industry in India, where Hyatt has 56 hotels in development.
London calling. The United Kingdom's largest union, Unite, pledged to support the Hyatt boycott on behalf of its 1.6 million members. Members of Unite held a solidarity thrifty car rental uk rally outside of the Hyatt Andaz at Liverpool Street in London. Another thrifty car rental uk union, the GMB, featured the Hyatt boycott during the Global Pride parade in London July 7, and is planning further actions during the week of the global boycott launch.
Standing against subcontracting in Israel . Freddi Cohen, Chairman of one of the member unions of Israel's Histadrut labor federation, wrote a glowing thrifty car rental uk letter of support for the struggle of North American Hyatt workers. He condemned Hyatt's known abuses of subcontracted labor, and explained that the subcontracting of labor in hotels and many other sectors is now illegal in Israel following a powerful nation-wide general strike in February.
Solidarity in Manila. In the Philippines, several groups held a solidarity action in support of Hyatt worker s . The IUF-affiliated NUWHRAIN, the hotel workers thrifty car rental uk union in the Philippines, joined with the Alliance for Progressive Labor (APL) and Sentro ng mga Progresibong Manggagawa (Sentro) to send a strong message outside the Hyatt Hotel and Casino Manila. In a press statement by NUWHRAIN, workers expressed their "solidarity with the workers thrifty car rental uk of Hyatt in the United States and elsewhere in the world who have suffered and continued to suffer from many forms of exploitation and abuses perpetrated by the hotel brands under the Hyatt Corporation."
Global petition . Nearly 100,000 members of SumOfUs.org in Australia, the United Kingdom thrifty car rental uk and North America signed a petition calling on the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara to reinstate Martha and Lorena Reyes, who were fired after an objection to the posting of demeaning pictures thrifty car rental uk of housekeepers in bikinis on a bulletin board at work.
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, and does not include the following thrifty car rental uk 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 Dearborn (Michigan), Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, Hyatt Regency Mission thrifty car rental uk Bay Spa and Marina, Hyatt Regency on King (Toronto), Park Hyatt Toronto, Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Hyatt Rosemont, and Hyatt Place San Jose.