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

[moria923.livejournal.com]

"Community-based network for employee recruiting"? Does that mean anything at all? Good thing people like you know how to read corporate gobbledegook! Of course, when they talk about working with their associates on English and integration into their communities, you can tell what they're really talking about is moving people around.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

What they mean is that they lure people from 3rd world countries, people to whom $8 sounds like a fortune, who are led to believe that they will be living the good life working in fancy hotels. On the website are stock photography photos of beautiful, smiling models in crisp, attractive uniforms waiting on elegant tables and tidying beautiful rooms. What they don't know is that they'll be living in poverty akin to what they endure in their home countries, and that on their $8 wage they will never be able to afford to go home again. Trapped. It wouldn't surprise me if some of them are forced into prostitution or drug dealing just to keep a roof over their heads.