News, Reader to Hyatt Hotels: "Shame on you" for outsourcing housekeepers. (benefits, illegal)

[JD59]

Few of the comments received this weekend about Hyatt Hotels' decision to fire about 100 of its housekeepers at three Boston-area hotels and replace them with outsourced workers expressed empathy for hotel operator. In fact, some readers say they won't stay at Hyatts again because of the move.

Reader to Hyatt Hotels: "Shame on you" for outsourcing housekeepers - Hotel Check-in: A road warrior's guide to the lodging landscape - USATODAY.com

[Visit a Library]

Why should Hyatt not outsource? Everybody else is doing it, and the American people don't have the spine to stand up for what's rightfully theirs anyway.

[Huckleberry3911948]

translation, outresourcing means subcontract to a firm that will provide initially green card people but in a few months the staff will be loaded with illegals.

[sundrop]

hmmm ... some of the housekeepers were making $15.69 per hour plus benefits with 20 or more years of service.

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replacements are making $8 per hour with no benefits.

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Janice Loux, the president of Unite Here Local 26, a union that represents local hotel workers, called the outsourcing a “race to the bottom.’’