Reply #94: Not a tax revolt, but a consumer revolt. [View All]

The Hyatt hotel chain in Boston fired 98 hotel workers, mostly housekeepers, many who had worked for Hyatt for 20 years or longer, to be replaced by contract employees from a Georgia staffing agency.

Boston taxi drivers say that they will refuse to drive customers to the Hyatt chain if the housekeepers aren't given their jobs back. Others promise to avoid staying at Hyatt hotels for the same reasons. This is the way to handle the corporate chiselers. Hit them in their pocket books. This kind of action is long overdue.

The corporations have purchased most of the U.S. government. The only vote that we have left is to vote our pocket books. Refuse to do business with companies that fire workers for no good reason, and refuse to shop at stores that sell mostly imported goods rather than stock American-made products.

The thread about Hyatt hotels in Boston can be found at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6625329#6626044