Remember when we told you "today's not a good day to stay at a Hyatt in Chicago?" Well, this week isn't looking so good either. As of this morning, unionized workers at the Hyatt Regency Chicago and Hyatt Regency McCormick Place have have launched a week-long protest.

But that's not it: workers from other Hyatt hotels in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Honolulu have all followed suit in similar week-long protests. According to Unite Here, the strikes are comprised of about 3,000 union workers across six hotels. Yikes!]]> ASchechter 2011-09-08T13:14:20-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/7/21/9810/97094 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/parkhyattchicago_bedroom.jpg" class="top"><p>If you're checking into the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/PARK+HYATT+CHICAGO/local/1923"><b>Park Hyatt Chicago</b></a>, you might not get the welcome you hoped for. That's because hotel workers from the Unite Here Local 1 union will be striking in front of the hotel for better working conditions for hotel housekeepers. <p>Apparently <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hyatt hotels">Hyatt Hotels</a> is the last major hotel chain in Chicago to agree to a deal with the union. In fact, over a year ago in May, a few hundred Hyatt employees <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/5/27/10643/2259/hotels/Hyatt_Housekeepers_Walk_Out_on_Job_But_Just_for_a_Little_Bit_">walked out on their jobs</a> in protest. But that was only for a few hours while today looks like it will be an all-day thing.<p> Hyatt's also got the same problem today in other cities too, nine to be juliana 2011-07-21T09:14:37-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/10/18/163517/69

Hilton Hotels are under fire this week as hotel workers in three different cities staged strikes to protest increased work loads and less benefits.

The strikes occurred at Hiltons in Chicago, San Francisco and in Honolulu at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, the largest Hilton Hotel. Most workers at Hilton hotels have been working without contracts for months as they continue to negotiate fairer terms with Hilton.

According to People's World, Hilton wants to up the housekeeping room quota from 14 to 20 rooms a day as well as cut some seniority privileges and combine jobs. Wage increases and pension benefits proposed by Hilton have been deemed insufficient by employing unions. ]]> juliana 2010-10-18T16:51:31-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/10/4/225540/726 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Frank_Room.JPG" class="top"><p> About a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/9/9/23715/25369/hotels/Do_The_Provenance_Hotels_In_San_Fran_Still_Have_Personality_">month ago</a>, we stopped into two of the former Personality Hotels in San Francisco, which had been taken over by <a href="Http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/provenance hotels"><b>Provenance Hotels</b></a> in mid-May. <p>As far as we could see, things seemed to be A-OK. Free WiFi was still in place and Provenance was working hard to get the renovations back on track at both the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Frank/local/698">Hotel Vertigo</a> and the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Vertigo/local/1366">Hotel Frank</a>. Yet things were not as copacetic as we thought.<p>Provenance has been tussling with employees of the three hotels (including Hotel Metropolis) over increased workloads and slashed employee benefits. A longtime hotel bellman at Hotel Frank, who's also Unite-Here Local 2 union activist, was fired last week after a juliana 2010-10-05T09:04:59-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/5/27/10643/2259 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/hyattregencychicagoroom.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>Just remember that a certain someone makes this bed look so good.</i><p>Things are getting dirty in Chicago at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hyatt hotels"><b>Hyatt Hotels</b></a>. Nearly 400 housekeepers staged a three-hour work "stoppage" yesterday at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hyatt+Regency+Chicago/ian/106062">Hyatt Regency</a> on Wacker Drive. The housekeepers, spurred by employee union Unite Here Local 1, were <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-05-26/business/ct-biz-0527-hyatt-stoppage--20100526_1_hyatt-regency-chicago-workers-behalf-union-workers">protesting</a> their growing workload (specifically with hotel bedding) and this little thing called an expired contract. <p>Yup, over 6,000 hotel employees at 31 hotels in Chicago have been working without a contract since last August. We just hope this issue ends better than it did in Boston where Hyatt Hotels there had all the housekeepers train their replacements before effectively <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/18/134026/117/hotels/Boston_s_Hyatt_Hotels_Have_No_Love_for_Housekeepers">firing them.</a><p>For now, the housekeepers juliana 2010-05-27T10:12:08-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/