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Hundreds picket Hyatt HQ, protesting threats to cancel healthcare

Thousands could lose coverage under Hyatt’s proposal; Clergy denounce Hyatt’s “harsh tactics”Hundreds of hotel workers and allies are picketing at Hyatt’s global headquarters today in protest of Hyatt’s proposal to strip health insurance from Chicago hotel workers and their families after more than two years of contract negotiations. Bargaining between Hyatt and the members of […]

Hyatt threatens to cut off workers’ healthcare

After more than two years of bargaining, contract negotiations between Hyatt Hotels and members of UNITE HERE Local 1 hit a crisis point last Monday when Hyatt threatened to cut off health benefits unless workers give up their fight and abandon their boycotts. In response, hotel workers, religious leaders, and health advocates are holding a […]

Chicago Hyatt Workers Join Nationwide Strikes

In an emblematic fight over the direction of our economy, today Hyatt workers in Chicago join thousands of Hyatt hotel workers in launching week-long strikes in cities nationwide, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Honolulu. Workers from the Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Hyatt McCormick are participating in local strikes. By striking, workers are standing […]

Hotel workers strike at the Park Hyatt Chicago

After nearly two years of negotiations, housekeepers, dishwashers, bellmen and other hotel workers are going on strike at the Park Hyatt. Hyatt, a company that has more cash on hand than most of its competitors combined, wants to outsource work and impose dangerous working conditions on housekeepers. Today’s strike in Chicago coincides with Hyatt protests […]

Hotel workers strike at the Hyatt Regency Chicago

Hundreds of religious leaders to join workers on the picket line at world’s largest Hyatt After 20 months of negotiations, housekeepers, dishwashers, bellmen and other hotel workers are going on strike at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, the largest Hyatt property in the world. Hyatt, a company run by billionaires, wants to outsource work and impose […]