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

[moechus.livejournal.com]

Are you sure that there's no place to go on such short notice? In this economy? I bet there's a lot of unbooked capacity out there and that a little digging would turn up some alternatives.

The real question would then be whether Arisia could get out of its contract with Hyatt (and, if not, what would be the consequences of a breach under these circumstances).

[quietann.livejournal.com]

Certainly not for 2010. The American Library Association convention is the same weekend as Arisia and every single big hotel in Boston is part of that.

Things open up for 2011 and there are contract negotiations underway.

(And per the whole hotel moving issue of a few years ago, there are a tiny number of hotels in New England that come anywhere close to having space for Arisia.)

[dda.livejournal.com]

The real question would then be whether Arisia could get out of its contract with Hyatt (and, if not, what would be the consequences of a breach under these circumstances).

My understanding is that the consequences of a breach in our contract with the Hyatt would be Arisia paying them a lot of money, canceling A'10 and Arisia getting a very bad reputation which would make it more difficult to get into any hotel in the Boston area.

Do you honestly think that another hotel is going to respond well to, "Well, we breached our contract with the Hyatt because they outsourced their housekeeping staff!"??