Today a global boycott of Hyatt Hotels was declared. As a server at the Hyatt Andaz in West Hollywood, not only do I personally condone it,...
It’s a strange feeling to recognize someone not by his or her face, but by their name-tag. This was the experience I had in Providence, Rhode...
It’s hard to know where to begin. A co-worker walked onto the restaurant floor after her break. She was shaking her head. She’d been on the...
This past Monday, I drove to Long Beach to participate in the Living Wage Campaign. A large group of us met up at the North Long...
A few weeks back I was quoted in a blog called Down With Tyranny. The article was about the ongoing dispute over employers asking for employee...
Am I allowed to write this? Is it against company rules? Before I tell you why I ask, let me explain a little about myself. I’m...
I’m going to hate writing this. Every word. Last week Masaharu Morimoto of Iron Chef fame was outed by my union, UNITE HERE, Local 11 as...
On a recent Wednesday I was walking to my job at the RH restaurant inside the Hyatt Andaz Hotel on the Sunset Strip. Per my daily...
“James, would you mind driving me to Wal-Mart?” Ugh. My mother-in-law asked me this question on a day when my wife was at work and I...
It seems inevitable that national coverage of the Occupy movement has been dying down. The sporadic stories I read are of arrests of occupiers in different...
Both of my legs came out from under me, but it was my left knee that twisted painfully and bore the brunt of the accident. I...
My wife and I are bird nuts. Our weekends are spent hiking around the hills of Los Angeles with binoculars in hand. I have a somewhat...
“So, would you like to move into management?” I’ve been asked this question various times during my employment with the Hyatt Andaz hotel over the past...
The Australian woman with the large framed glasses signaled me to come over to her table, where her husband and she were having a difficult time...
I’ll call him Alex. We work together at the RH restaurant at the Hyatt Andaz hotel on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. We are uneasy...
I hung up the phone and got queasy. Leigh Shelton, the press spokesperson for Local 11 had just asked me if I wanted to MC the...
As I parked the car near the Gudiel family house on Proctor Avenue, in an unincorporated part of the San Gabriel Valley, I suddenly remembered that...
We were met at the Hyatt Andaz loading dock with a big sign that said, Welcome Back, Andaz Employees. I crept into the entrance, a nervous...
