June 14, 2012 -- More than 80 percent of Hyatt Century Plaza housekeepers signed a petition recently demanding improved working conditions in the hotel. The housekeeper petitons says: "Hyatt is hurting housekeepers by increasing our workload, giving us inadequate equipment and materials, and by imposing policies that interfere with our tips."

Housekeepers also called on Hyatt to listen to the Federal Government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) by implementing OSHA’s “Intervention Strategies to Address Housekeeping Stressors.”

Download the petition with signatures. 

The full petition reads: 

We, the housekeeping department of the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel, sign this petition to the public because Hyatt is hurting housekeepers by increasing our workload, giving us inadequate equipment and materials, and by imposing policies that interfere with our tips.  We ask that Hyatt listen to the Federal Government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) by implementing OSHA’s “Intervention Strategies to Address Housekeeping Stressors.”  Most importantly:

“Minimize the force exerted to push and pull tools and supplies around the work space by providing motorized carts, lighter-weight vacuums with better hand grip design, performing scheduled maintenance on carts and vacuums, and organizing the work in a manner that minimizes travel distance between rooms;

“Reduce the quantity and severity of torso bending, lifting, and carrying by minimizing placement of soiled linens on the floor, reducing the weight and distance that laundry is carried, organizing the work in a manner that minimizes travel distance between rooms. . .”