<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">As broadcast on ABC 7 news: According to Hyatt the women were fired for taking too long on their<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> lunch breaks. Their defense is that it is common for them to take a longer lunch break to make up for missing 15 minute breaks during their shift.<BR style="RIGHT: auto" class=yui-cursor></SPAN></div>
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<DIV><SPAN>Apparently these women were not fired for union organizing. They were fired for much less of a reason. <VAR id=yiv1903289763yui-ie-cursor></VAR>Click on the link at the bottom to sign the petition.<BR class=yiv1903289763yui-cursor></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Arial>----- Forwarded Message -----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Katy Rose <krose@unitehere19.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Katy Rose <krose@unitehere19.org> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, November 18, 2011 1:11 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Will You Stand By Women Who Stand Up to Hyatt?<BR></FONT>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 7.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><A href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wvSubNNSblrXjib1v12xXxg0sBHNvTcv" rel=nofollow target=_blank></A></SPAN><A href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wvSubNNSblrXjib1v12xXxg0sBHNvTcv" rel=nofollow target=_blank><IMG border=0 align=right src="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/5872/c/514/images/reyessisters.jpg" width=356 height=243></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><A href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wvSubNNSblrXjib1v12xXxg0sBHNvTcv" rel=nofollow target=_blank></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">Dear Friends,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 7.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">When I arrived at my job as a housekeeper at the Hyatt Hotel Santa Clara one day in September, I heard my co-workers laughing at a photo collage posted on the wall. I saw a photo of my face edited onto the "sexy" body of a bikini-clad woman holding a surfboard. A similar faked image of my sister Lorena had also been posted.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 7.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">I was humiliated, and I took down the photos of my sister and me. I wouldn't give them back, and I said that if anyone wanted the photos back they would have to get them from me in court.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 7.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">Days later the hotel fired both Lorena and me.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 7.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">Lorena worked at the hotel property for 24 years, and I worked there for seven. We both had excellent work records. I have five children and legal custody of three grandchildren, and I'm now in danger of losing my home.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 7.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">My sister and I have started a petition to demand that the Hyatt hotel give us our jobs back with back pay for the time we have been without work.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 7.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">We did not deserve to be fired. We just want to be treated with respect.</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"></SPAN></DIV>
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