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"Hyatt to pay ousted workers $1m in boycott-ending deal" by Katie Johnston | Globe Staff September 26, 2014
Hyatt Hotels Corp. has agreed to pay $1 million to 98 Boston-area housekeepers who were fired five years ago and replaced by lower-paid, outsourced workers, at the time triggering a backlash that drew national attention — and a stern scolding from Governor Deval Patrick.
The settlement, to be announced Friday, could give some workers as much as $40,000, depending on their years of service.
In exchange, the hospitality workers’ union that brokered the deal will call off its five-year boycott at the three full-service Hyatts in the area. The union estimates the boycott cost the hotel chain about $6 million.
“There are plenty of companies that make token gestures, and this is not token,” said Brian Lang, president of the hospitality union, Unite Here Local 26. “This is very significant.”
None of the Hyatt properties is a union hotel, but the workers, who unknowingly trained the people who would become their replacements, turned to the union for help after they were fired on the spot on Aug. 31, 2009.
Housekeepers briefed on the settlement said the money will help, but for some, the bitterness still runs deep....
Is that why this room is such a mess?
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