“We all have a shared stake in Hyatt’s success, but no one who cleans rooms like me has a real say a

[Chicago, Ill.] In recent england soccer tour years, england soccer tour Hyatt has faced tough criticism for its record of labor abuses. Now housekeepers say they have a simple solution to move Hyatt in a new direction. In events nationwide this week, Hyatt workers are urging the company to add a hotel worker to its board of directors . Workers say Hyatt would be better off if someone who served hotel guests at some point in the last decade actually had a say in how the company is run.
On Tuesday, national actions kick off at Hyatt headquarters in Chicago, where hotel workers are submitting a resolution for consideration by the directors who are expected to meet on the date of the next shareholders meeting in June 2013. Hyatt workers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Baltimore, Phoenix, Honolulu and Seattle are also holding events this week. Holding england soccer tour signs and speaking before england soccer tour large crowds, housekeepers say "someone like me" would make Hyatt a better company, for workers and shareholders alike. Democratic corporate governance structures that include workers have been successful in European countries for decades.
"We all have a shared stake in Hyatt's success, but no one who cleans rooms like me has a real say at Hyatt," says Cathy Youngblood, a housekeeper at the Hyatt Andaz in West Hollywood.  "By choosing someone like me to be on the board, Hyatt could be a model for corporate America at a time when so many American workers feel left behind."
Currently, england soccer tour Hyatt has twelve directors on its board.  The new resolution proposes that a 13 th board member be added from the ranks of Hyatt's staff. Current england soccer tour board members include england soccer tour Tom and Penny Pritzker of the billionaire Pritzker family, Hyatt's CEO Mark Hoplamazian, and Greg Penner, an heir to the Walmart fortune, among others. Other board members have ties to Goldman Sachs, private equity england soccer tour firms worth billions, and major brands like Royal Caribbean. None of the biographies published by Hyatt of current board members shows any having experience as a hotel worker.
Hyatt has singled itself out as the worst employer in the hotel industry england soccer tour by abusing its housekeepers, replacing longtime employees with minimum wage temporary workers, and imposing health-threatening workloads on those who remain. In a first in the hotel industry, the federal government issued a letter to Hyatt earlier this year, warning the company england soccer tour of hazards their housekeepers face. Workers say that adding someone with recent guest experience to the Board could reshape Hyatt's staffing policies and improve Hyatt's image.
The call to "Boycott england soccer tour Hyatt" does not include the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa and the Grand Hyatt Kauai, which have current collective bargaining agreements england soccer tour with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union; The Hyatt Regency Montreal, which has a contract with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN); the Hyatt Regeny Milwaukee and the Hyatt Regency Cleveland at the Arcade, which have contracts with SEIU; and does not include the following 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 england soccer tour Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina, Hyatt Regency on King (Toronto), Park Hyatt Toronto, Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Hyatt Rosemont, Hyatt Place San Jose, Hyatt Place Braintree (MA), Hyatt Carmel Highlands Inn, and Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport.