hotel workers

Santa Clara council backs Hyatt workers

August 22, 2013 By Henry Millstein

Dozens of Hyatt workers and community supporters packed the City Council chambers on Monday to speak in favor of a resolution.

Residents say poverty wages will not resurrect Detroit

July 23, 2013 By John Rummel

Only blocks from city hall, a Friday afternoon picket line at the Crowne Plaza Hotel symbolizes the fight taking place in this city.

Hyatt workers win big concessions, global boycott to end

July 2, 2013 By John Wojcik

Unite Here, representing hospitality workers, has reached a deal with Hyatt Hotels, ending a four-year bitter battle involving protests, strikes, civil disobedience and a global boycott against the chain.

Sanders, citing her anti-worker stand, is sole senator vs. Pritzker

June 27, 2013 By Press Associates

Hyatt fired housekeepers, replacing them with out-of-state minimum-wage temps. Unite Here has called a boycott of Hyatt.

Union protests Obama’s nomination of Pritzker

May 28, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Saying Hyatt Hotel magnate Penny Pritzker destroys jobs, Unite Here members crowded into the back of a Senate hearing room to show the union opposes her nomination as U.S. Commerce Secretary.