Global Hyatt Boycott Launches

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...

Member Profile: Don Olson

May 23, 2011 Don Olson — Server — Grand Hyatt San Francisco — 37 years of service My mother was born the year the Titanic sank.  She went to vocational school to learn telegraphy and then she went to work for Western Union.  She operated...

Fighting Back Against Hyatt’s War on Mamas

Friday, May 11, 2012 2012 has been a year of wars. There’s the War on Women – an intense legislative assault on women’s access to reproductive health care – and the War on Workers – be they public sector workers trying to hold on to their right...

Walmart and Hyatt Workers Unite to Demand Justice from Greg & Carrie Penner

Workers and community hold “Gala for the 99%” at site of Walmart & Hyatt Board members’ high-society fundraiser April 19, 2012 Today, Bay Area Walmart and Hyatt workers will come together to demand that Greg and Carrie Penner address the injustice...

Member Profile: Cynthia Reed

Cynthia Reed — PBX Operator — Hyatt Regency San Francisco  – 22 years of service A lot of people ask me, “Why do you fight?  You don’t have children.”  I fight because my co-workers have children.  I fight because my co-workers...