ends meet. one job should be enough to have a family, provide for your family. one job should be enough to cover healthcare and medical benefits. one job should be enough to retire in dignity. working people shouldn t have to chose between these things. they shouldn t have to say like, oh, well, i just will take the pension but i ll lose and marriott has the ability to change this. they have the planes, the power the money, the financials that they can make a change for the better and show respect to their workers. thank you all for your time and your support. [applause] nicolas. good afternoon, everyone. i work as a attendant at the palace hotel. i am on strike. for working as a decade as a room attendant at the palace hotel, i have the worries, the stress of what will be my future and my family as well. because of the high cost of living, the small amount of money me and my husband are receiving every pay day, it is not enough to cover us or pay our rent or our apartmen
hotel to sign the contract today so we get a job. the hotel is my second home. we wish they could give us the health care, wages, pension, job security. thank you. bye-bye. supervisor yee: thank you. mirian it is mirian here? okay. next speaker that s in line. good afternoon. my name is steve creswell, and a bartender at the marriott square. i live in the most expensive city in america. i ve lived in san francisco for 26 years, and 22 years of those 26 years, i ve had roommates to help with the expense, even when i was married. yes, san francisco is that expensive today. we are here because we are asking marriott to pay their workers a fair living wage. we are asking marriott to pay into our pensions so we can retire with dignity in the community where we ve lived and where we have worked, where we have spent our lives. we are asking all of this at a time when marriott is making record profits, a company valued at $49 billion, a company that just benefited from a genero
the past eight years as a bellman. during that time, i ve had to work two jobs in order to make ends meet. i ve also worked tongues of overtime. just because i needed the money in order to survive in the city. at times i worked multiple times 24 hours straight. i ve even worked 32 hours straight shift. even with all this, i don t feel like my wife and i can afford to have children in this city and raise them. which is pretty grim. marriott is the largest and richest hotel company the world has ever known. they made billions in profits last year on the backs of their workers. and they give their c.e.o. millions in compensation and a golden parachute, even when he is done, he will be fine for the rest of his life. i m here to today to say that one job should be enough. one job should be enough to make ends meet. one job should be enough to have a family, provide for your family. one job should be enough to cover healthcare and medical benefits. one job should be enough to retir
coverage. my daughter has gone to the university and it is going to be harder for me with just one job. kirk. i ve worked for marriott for 23 years. i was at the stanford court for 18 years, i thought i would retire there. in 2013 i was laid off so i had to look for another marriott job to stay with the company. i knew a manager at another marriott so i went to work for them, luckily. after three months, i lost my healthcare. i started getting letters for cobra, which is not cheap, as you well know. but luckily i did get a job. the marriott, i ve worked for marriott for a long time. i know they can afford this. the healthcare is important, especially here in san francisco. with my brothers and sisters this strike has been tough. one job should be enough. thank you. good afternoon. my name is candy and i work for the san francisco for 16 years being a supervisor. i strike marriott because i have to give up my privacy and i had to bring my children, my son, his wife, my g
college. san from is a very expensive city. i need to support my family. i pay the mortgage and i pay the tax. marriott is requests 40 room per day. we are all the jobs where we had. because they remodel the room, our job is for my co-worker if she is hurt always hurt and go home. sleep. no time for us. marriott is wealthy hotel. a lot of the business we are only asking for the benefits that we deserve and i will not wake up san francisco you need time. can you help me sign the contract, please. [applause] do you have announcement? mr. chair, before the next speaker speaks, i just wanted to provide some tips to the audience and the public gallery. at the beginning of this hearing, the chair indicated that there are no loud noises, applause or vocal expression of support that includes applause. if you would please hold your applause until the end of the hearing. that way we can get through each speaker and not have their comments interrupted. much appreciated. thank you.