Mass. Governor’s Hyatt Boycott Gains Support
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has declared a state employee boycott on Hyatt Hotels & Resorts for firing 100 housekeepers last month and outsourcing the jobs to a Georgia company, and his decision seems to be garnering public support. Hyatt Hotels Corp. said it was a simply a cost-cutting measure to replace the Boston-area employees with cheaper workers from Hospitality Staffing Solutions. The about 100 workers came from the Hyatt Regency Boston, the Hyatt Regency Cambridge and the Hyatt Harborside at Logan. Patrick’s, and later the public’s outrage, stemmed from employee accounts of Hyatt asking them to train the new workers, saying they were “vacation fill-ins” rather than their replacements. In a letter to Hyatt chief executive Mark Hoplamazian, after being unable to change the CEO’s mind,…
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