{"id":258,"date":"2009-09-29T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2009-11-26T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T09:12:55","slug":"usa-%e2%80%98green-hotel%e2%80%99-claim-is-dangerous-greenwashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/usa-%e2%80%98green-hotel%e2%80%99-claim-is-dangerous-greenwashing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Green hotel\u2019 claim is dangerous greenwashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jobs agency supplying workers to a top US hotel chain is imposing debilitating work rates on the out-sourced staff while boasting the measures are creating a \u201cgreen hotel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Holliday, president of the temporary agency Hospitality Staffing Solutions, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/articles\/2009\/09\/26\/hotel_staffing_company_faced_wage_complaints\/\">Boston Globe<\/a> he has given the formerly directly employed Hyatt housekeepers a \u201cstart\u2019\u2019 on the \u201cAmerican Dream\u2019\u2019 by paying them $8 per hour to clean 25 rooms per day. He said the \u201cgreen programmes\u2019\u2019 in which sheets are not automatically changed, enable workers to nearly double their workload.<\/p>\n<p>Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, executive director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH), is not impressed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cImagine yourself in Holliday\u2019s \u2018dream\u2019: You show up at work and learn that your new employer is a temporary agency. Then you\u2019re told you must clean 40 per cent more rooms per day &#8211; 25 instead of 15, from 30 minutes to less than 17 minutes per room, because you work in a \u2018green hotel\u2019 and will change sheets less frequently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou still have many other tasks per room &#8211; scrubbing toilets, cleaning tiles, washing coffee makers, dusting, wiping mirrors, vacuuming carpets, mopping floors, and lifting heavy mattresses for rooms that need sheets changed. To meet the higher quota, you skip breaks and lunches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause these tasks require 8,000 back- and shoulder-breaking postures, you are likely to suffer severe work-related pain (77 per cent to 91 per cent of housekeepers do). To get through the day, you may need pain medication (65 per cent of housekeepers do). There\u2019s a fair chance you will become permanently disabled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/letters\/articles\/2009\/09\/29\/cleaners_face_hard_work_pain\/\">Boston Globe<\/a>, she concludes: \u201cNot green with envy for this American Dream? The flag Rick Holliday\u2019s waving isn\u2019t red, white, and blue &#8211; it\u2019s greenwashed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jobs agency supplying workers to a top US hotel chain is imposing debilitating work rates on the out-sourced staff while boasting the measures are creating a \u201cgreen hotel\u201d. Rick Holliday, president of the temporary agency Hospitality Staffing Solutions, told the Boston Globe he has given the formerly directly employed Hyatt housekeepers a \u201cstart\u2019\u2019 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[56,54,55,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}