{"id":3459,"date":"2010-07-24T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T11:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2010-07-24T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T11:14:13","slug":"hotel-workers-protest-hyatt-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/hotel-workers-protest-hyatt-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of hotel workers protest at Hyatt hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hyatt-hotel-protest.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3460\" title=\"Thousands of hotel workers protest at Hyatt hotels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hyatt-hotel-protest-340x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hyatt-hotel-protest-340x197.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hyatt-hotel-protest.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Thousands of Unite Here members and their labor and community supporters took to the streets in 15 cities across the U.S. and Canada July 22 to protest at Hyatt hotels.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators were expressing their outrage at the Hyatt&#8217;s layoffs, slashing of workers&#8217; hours and takeaway demands in contract talks, at the same time the giant hotel chain has reported having over $1.3 billion in available cash and its wealthy owners, the Pritzker family, took in over $900 million from the hotel&#8217;s first public offering in November 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago &#8211; Pritzker family headquarters &#8211; hundreds of workers sat down in the street in front of the Hyatt Regency&#8217;s glass tower that rises high above the Chicago River. Workers were cheered on by 1,000 supporters lining both sides of the drive in front of the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty five sit-in participants were arrested after demonstrators blocked traffic for nearly an hour.<\/p>\n<p>As onlookers cheered, the workers, with signs reading &#8220;Enough is Enough!&#8221; pinned to their backs, entered the street in single file and sat down in rows. &#8220;We are human beings, enough is enough!&#8221; they chanted as they sat, arms linked, filling the street from one end to the other.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 16)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of hotel workers protest at Hyatt hotels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}