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KPCC: Irvine Embassy Suites Workers Stage Walk-Out |
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Written by Leigh Shelton
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 IRVINE — A few dozen Embassy Suites workers who claim they are routinely denied breaks walked off the job in Irvine today, organizers said, while the hotel put the number much lower.
The workers have filed a complaint with the state Department of Industrial Relations, claiming they are owed $180,000 in back pay for denied breaks, said Nick Sifuentes of the public policy organization Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, which is helping the workers with their protest and attempt to unionize.
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Rabbi, AJU Professor Arrested at Hotel Workers Protest |
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Written by Leigh Shelton
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By Ryan Torok
A rabbi and a professor at American Jewish University were among 63 people arrested for civil disobedience on the Sunset Strip during rush hour on Thursday , July 22. The labor protest against the Hyatt chain of hotels took place in front of the Andaz hotel near La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood. The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department made the arrests just before 7 p.m. at the end of a two-hour demonstration in support of hotel workers’ rights.
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Greater Long Beach: Eat, Pray, Love: Inside the Other Protest at the Long Beach Hyatt |
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Written by Leigh Shelton
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By Rachel Powers
Thursday at 5:01 p.m. I was in an armchair at the Long Beach Hyatt Regency’s bar and lounge, serenely sipping iced tea and having pleasant conversation with three companions about all sorts of things: grad school dissertations, night life in Long Beach, how much we were enjoying the spicy Chex mix that came with the drinks and what on earth was the story with the big kerfuffle outside? Were those people … picketing? Really? On such a lovely day?
“It’s union—they want us to join a union,” the waitress announced as she breezed by, moving so quickly her hair actually flapped in the air behind her (she was the only one serving about 25 customers).
We went back to sipping our drinks—and checking our watches … now 5:14 p.m. …16 minutes to go.
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Jewish Journal: Putting On My “Going to Prison” Clothes |
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 By Professor Aryeh Cohen
Thursday, after seeing my two children off to Camp Ramah, I came home and I put on my going to prison clothes. This is something I have not thought about in a while. When I was in Grad School near Boston, once or twice a month on a Sunday I would visit Jeff (not his real name) at Walpole State Prison, about an hour or so south of Boston. One of the saddest things about these visits was seeing the children in (what I came to call) their “Sunday going to prison clothes” visiting their fathers.
Thursday, however, I was not going to visit somebody else in prison, I was going to get arrested.
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KPFK 90.7 FM: Hotel Workers Take to Streets of WeHo |
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Written by Leigh Shelton
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By Chris Bennett
Nearly a thousand hotel workers in 15 cities around the country organized coordinated acts of civil disobedience yesterday to protest staff cuts, reduced hours, and generally poor working conditions. Here in southern California, dozens of workers from UNITE-HERE Local 11 gathered outside the Hyatt Andaz West Hollywood and blocked traffic. Sixty three people were arrested. Since the Hyatt hotel group went public last year, share prices have risen 50%.
One billionaire Chicago-based family, the Pritzkers, have raked in close to a billion dollars off the hotel chain that is one of the nation’s most lucrative. But as profits have been increasing, hotel workers have been laid off. Click on the "read more" link below to read and listen to the full radio segment on Uprising Radio.
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