Beyond The Hyatt

[plumtreeblossom]

Hospitality Staffing Solutions of Georgia, the company providing the $8hr outsourced workers who have replaced the Hyatt's housekeeping staff, are essentially trafficking in human slaves, who are brought in from outside the community and possibly outside the country, taught enough English to work, and installed. Please have a look around their website:

http://www.hssstaffing.com/

And especially this page:

http://www.hssstaffing.com/hsspeople.html

On $8hr minus taxes and other deductions, those exploited workers will have nowhere to live except homeless shelters or worse (yes, people with low-paying jobs sometimes have to live in the shelter system until something else can be worked out). The executives at HSS know this perfectly well. Let's all remind them.

Kathryne King,
Owner
kking@hssstaffing.com


Boston
(201) 800-1015
Diana Young,Area Mgr
dyoung@hssstaffing.com

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I am SO glad Kos picked it up. That's the kind of spotlight this heinous act deserves.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

I was actually going to respond that you should diary about it on DailyKos, but someone else wrote something before I was able to respond to you.

It looks like our Rep. Capuano is also on the case.

What bothers me is that I doubt this practice is limited to just Hyatt.

This practice has cropped up before, as the DailyKos post notes with the Circuit City Incident.

What a better segway into the next battle after Health Care: the Employee Free Choice Act.