Hyatt workers ratify new contract, ending strike 1 day after Marriott deal [Video]

Hotel workers who have been on strike for the past three months reached a tentative agreement with Hyatt Hotels Corporation late Friday, the employees’ union said in a press release Saturday morning.   

It is the same four-year contract as one reached with Marriott hotels on Thursday that the union, Unite Here Local 2, said included wage increases, preserved its health insurance plan, and would prevent understaffing and workload increases that have plagued the industry since the COVID-19 pandemic.   

Members of the union will vote on the Hyatt contract on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.   

The contract covers about 600 Hyatt hotel workers in various positions at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, Hotel Kabuki, and Hyatt Regency San Francisco at Embarcadero, including 250 employees who were on strike at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco on Stockton Street.   

“Winning this contract is the biggest victory of my life,” Sergio Hernandez, …