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POR 2026-108

Cambridge City Council go on record expressing support for UNITE HERE Local 26 in the boycott of the Hyatt Regency Cambridge

How it started
May 19, 2026 · Proposed by Councillor McGovern, Mayor Siddiqui, Councillors Simmons, Sobrinho-Wheeler, and Al-Zubi, Vice Mayor Azeem, and Councillors Flaherty, Nolan, and Zusy: a statement of the Council’s position, not a request for action.
What happened
Jun 1, 2026 · ✅ Adopted: the Council approved it (voice vote, 8 present)
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page

Hotel Workers at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge are ambassadors for the City and are among the first to welcome travelers and tourists to Cambridge; and

The thousands of UNITE HERE Local 26 hotel workers reflect the strength and diversity of the City of Cambridge; and

On March 26, 2026, a majority of Hyatt Regency Cambridge employees asked their employer for a fair process to choose whether or not to join a union; and

Believing that one job should be enough to live in the city they work in, on May 8th Hyatt Regency Cambridge workers voted to begin a Boycott of their own hotel until management agrees to a fair process regarding unionization; now therefore be it

ORDERED: That the Cambridge City Council go on record expressing support for the Boycott of the Hyatt Regency Cambridge and to honor the boycott by not eating, meeting or sleeping at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge while a labor dispute is in effect, to join picket lines and to encourage all city employees to do the same; and be it further

ORDERED: That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward a suitably engrossed copy of this resolution to the General Manager of the Hyatt Regency Cambridge.

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 1, 2026