Protesters Arrested - Chicago Hotel Union "Unite Here"

[inflateyourtires]

Get used to it

[obamaisapieceofshit]

All those Chitcago union fools can go home now that Obama thru them under the bus for Rio.

[BabsRevolts]

Send these idiots to Iraq to protect our troops

[aeiou99999]

How gullible do you have to be to think the US military is used to protect you or democracy?

[ThePissedOffAtheist]

Yeah, damn the blood sucking corporations who provide electricity, water, food, computers, medicine and comfort; hail to black-masked savages, their bricks and their Molotov cocktails! Maybe the police could have used a bit of sarin along with their tear gas.

[twistedbrother99]

Those people with the theatrical customs are not hotel workers. Hotel workers were wearing their red shirts. Were you there to ask them that? Please make educated comments. You waste your electricity. By the way...i WAS there, and i was arrested too for sitting on the street. I stand up for whjat i believe in. Not hang out on youtube making ignorant comments.

[ThePissedOffAtheist]

Ignorant? I merely copied and pasted a section from your video description. You are the one who described the corporations that provide food, warmth, electricity and broadband internet to spoiled brats like you as blood sucking, not me.

[aeiou99999]

You don't know much history, do you?

[iwillfight23]

i can guarantee you Hyatt hasn't lost money and they will not go bankrupt if they give us what we need not want. Hyatt has made more than enough profit. look it up before you comment. either way there is no excuse for underhanded actions.

[LandofDaFree]

Hmm, and how many tea party protestors needed to be arrested?

Zero.

[skinnychef]

haha! those weren't really protests....

[aeiou99999]

Zero were arrested; many "needed to be arrested." Get it?

[waluum]

Hyatt fired 100 people without cause? How was it without cause? It's a business, they are free to make any business decision they please.

What's the alternative, Hyatt bankrupting themselves to give these people work, or forcing Hyatt to pay them? How would that be fair to Hyatt?

I sympathize with those who lost their jobs, and I commend them for trying to bring to the attention of Hyatt how much they valued them, but shouldn't they be reasonable about the basis for their actions?

[twistedbrother99]

i notice that most of us are brainwashed by the general corporate beliefs of freedom to make business decisions as they see fit. But most of us forget that these corporations are just any other business, and as such if we saw a grocery store owner abusing an employee we would not buy there. Well, back to the issue. One hundred people were laid-off after training their replacements without their knowledge. Do YOU thyink it's fair?

[waluum]

We're not talking about abuse. Abuse is a criminal matter, and if a crime is committed then there should be justice. But firing employees is not a crime. It is fair on the basis of it being a private organization that can make private decisions that affect their business. It's unfortunate, and I sympathize with the former employees more than I do with the hotel, but it is fair...

[waluum]

...But if it is as you say, it would have been more honorable on the part of the hotel to inform the employees first that they were being replaced, and/or to have offered them wages that reflected the difference that they would be paying the replacements.

[aeiou99999]

They were replaced by minimum wage workers without health care. The era of brutal corporatism has to come to an end soon.

[waluum]

I'm glad you said "brutal corporatism" instead of "capitalism". I agree with you, we need to see a new era of capitalism that is guided by conscience and shows compassion for others. Competition in a free market is the most ideal system in the world we live in, but it is best for all if we do so with discretion and exercise proper discernment in the process. But that will not happen as long as people are unwilling to support a company primarily based on how it conducts itself in its activities.

[dogstar7]

Waluum,

It is well and good that you recognize the value of competition in a free market. Labor is a commodity on the market, also. It is the only commodity on the market that negotiates it's own price in it's own voice.

Thank you, and have a nice millennium.