Suffolk has announced that they are pulling out of the Boston Hyatt Hotel where they have housed students for the past two years. The Hyatt Hotels Corp. has sold the Hyatt Regency Boston building to The Chesapeake Lodging Trust, a lodging real estate investment trust. This particular Hyatt hotel in Boston has lost $1 million due to a boycott started by the Unite Here Local 26, a workers union that supported the 98 housekeepers that were fired earlier this year. The boycott not only has pulled revenue from this specific Hyatt hotel but also another $1 million from the surrounding Hyatt hotels in Cambridge and Logan Airport. “Suffolk University has been approached by former Hyatt workers as well as by students who are sympathetic to their plight,’’ John Nucci, Suffolk’s vice president for external affairs. The new residence building, which has been said to house 200 new residents, as well as the boycott of the hotels has led Suffolk to no longer use the Hyatt as a dormitory.
Suffolk pulls out of the Hyatt Hotel
March 31, 2010
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