Penny Pritzkers Hyatt Hotels turns up the heat lamps on striking workers.

[dameocrat67]

Pritzker is chairman of campaign finance committee and played a role in sandbagging card check legislation because service workers are treated nicely without unions.

Pritzker turns heat lamps on striking Hyatt workers
M. Klonsky pic

It was already approaching 100° at 8 a.m. when I arrived at the Park Hyatt where, after 22 months of stalled negotiations, hotel workers were staging a one-day picket to protest the hotel chain's intolerable treatment of their housekeeping staff.

In case you didn't know, Hyatt is owned by the Pritzker family. Heiress Penny Sue Pritzker chairs Obama's national campaign finance committee. She is also big player in Democratic Party politics as well as in the world of anti-union, corporate school reform and was recently appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to a seat on the Chicago school board.

Pritzker's response to the Park Hyatt strikers was to turn on the hotel's powerful heating lamps to try and bake the workers into submission on this brutally hot day. But this seemingly inhuman and probably illegal response seemed to have had just the opposite effect. Picketers began chanting, "Hyatt can't take the heat, but we can!" The lamps were left on until word got out and media began to show up. http://is.gd/Pv43lr

Even with no heatlamps temperatures exceeded 100 degrees.

[gratuitous]

1. Penny's got an interesting political resume

Seems she chaired the inaugural committee for the president-elect in 2008, and was the national finance chairwoman for the Obama presidential campaign. She works real hard to make sure working people don't get too uppity.

Not that this should reflect whatsoever on the person currently occupying the White House.

[dameocrat67]

2. she also sits on rahms appointed rather than elected school board

and pushes charter schools, and is on the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/advisory-boards/jobs-council/members/pritzker

[hedgehog]

3. Given the temperatures outside, Iwonder if this would fall under the

heading of an assault with intent to do bodily harm.

[Generic Other]

4. Very much comparable to Bull Connor setting firehoses on Civil Rights marchers

She should be ashamed. I will NEVER stay at a Hyatt again!

[whathehell]

6. Yes...It shows you how brutal some of the supposedly "liberal" elites can become

when their private fortunes are threatened.

You can be sure I'll be boycotting the Hyatt as well.:puke:

[undeterred]

5. The Pritzkers fund the University of Chicago Medical School

so I'm sure they can get expert advice on what is harmful to human beings.

[swilton]

7. Corporatism meets Global Warming