Boycott the Hyatt!

I think it's helpful to fill in more of the story: At Boston's three Hyatt hotels, management deceived some 100 hotel housekeeping workers into thinking they were training vacation fill-ins, when it turned out that the "fill-ins" were actually contract workers who would replace them. Having unwittingly dug their own graves, so to speak, the hotel employees were then called in and terminated. As reported in the Sept. 17 edition of the Globe:

When the housekeepers at the three Hyatt hotels in the Boston area were asked to train some new workers, they said they were told the trainees would be filling in during vacations.

On Aug. 31, staffers learned the full story: None of them would be making the beds and cleaning the showers any longer. All of them were losing their jobs. The trainees, it turns out, were employees of a Georgia company, Hospitality Staffing Solutions, who were replacing them that day.

This is a disturbing example of how an institution can exhibit deceptive, sociopathic tendencies. Yo, Hyatt management, have you no decency?

How does the $8.50/hr compare to the current "living wage" in Cambridge? Does the city have a program by which they twist arms of employers in order to convince them to pay a living wage?