Hyatt suddenly lays off housekeepers

[ron_newman]

Some of the staff we all love at the Hyatt were suddenly laid off last month -- after being asked to train their replacements:

Housekeepers lose Hyatt jobs to outsourcing

When the housekeepers at the three Hyatt hotels in the Boston area were asked to train some new workers, they said they were told the trainees would be filling in during vacations.

On Aug. 31, staffers learned the full story: None of them would be making the beds and cleaning the showers any longer. All of them were losing their jobs. The trainees, it turns out, were employees of a Georgia company, Hospitality Staffing Solutions, who were replacing them that day.

Comments

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

According to the article, hotel chains such as Hilton and Marriott are *not* planning on outsourcing their housekeeping units. If there is a Hilton or Marriott in the Boston area that meets Arisia's requirements, I'd recommend a move to one of them.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Wait, weren't we just boycotting Marriott (http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/boycottmarriotthotel/) over the blame-the-victim parking-garage rape case? Sigh. Stupid hotel chains.

Maybe Arisia's hotel committee could throw around its weight as valued off-season customer to say to the Hyatt, "Gee, aside from the general scumminess of this little incident, we now have people threatening to skip our convention altogether because of it, and We Are Not Best Pleased." >:-)

[dda.livejournal.com]

We have to continue to work with the Cambridge Hyatt to put on Arisia 2010; pissing them off by "throwing our weight around" isn't going to make that any easier and might well make it significantly more difficult.

If people, as individuals, have an issue with this and will be avoiding the Hyatt as a result, they should contact Hyatt management (i.e. not the Front Desk) and make their opinions known.