March for Hotel Workers

During Passover and Holy Week, religious leaders, hotel workers and community advocates in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Los Angeles and San Diego will lead processions through the streets of their cities and in front of the Hyatt hotels, carrying heavy mattresses to signify the heavy load hotel workers carry every day, causing chronic injury and pain. 
In San Francisco we will begin our procession in honor of all low wage workers by delivering milk and honey – a symbol of the “good things” – that will come from the fair contract signed with the Blackstone Inc, owner of the Hilton Union Square, the first in the city to secure the livelihoods of their workers for the future and a model for other hotel contracts.
We will continue to the Hyatt with a silent march to deliver Passover symbols offering them a choice to continue the bitter suffering of Hyatt hotel workers with the highest workplace injuries (of the top 5 hotel chains in the nation) or provide the wine of freedom with job security and a fair process to form a union & the end to long labor disputes.
Sincerely,

Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller        Rabbi David J. Cooper
Congregation Sherith Israel     Kehilla Community Synagogue

Susan Lubeck and                Rev. Donna Wood

Bob Kane                               Park Presidio 
Progressive Jewish Alliance     United Methodist Church
 
Rev. Israel I. Alvaran            Rev. Carol Been
CLUE San Francisco               CLUE California

For more information, email Rev. Carol Been: cbeen@clueca.org