Yorkville 1: King West 0. Hotel workers picket outside Hyatt

By Karon Liu | September 10, 2010

By Karon Liu | 09/10/2010

Workers strike outside the Hyatt Regency (Image: Karon Liu)

A day after hotel workers handed out pamphlets outside the King Street Hyatt Regency—the headquarters of all TIFF business—workers took action and began to picket outside the hotel this afternoon, complete with giant inflatable rat. They chanted “contract now, contract now” as police looked on. Security at the hotel has tightened in the past day, with press having to present ID to access pretty much any venue in the hotel, where press conferences are being held. Is that the sound of Yorkville hoteliers chuckling that we hear?

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Workers strike outside the Hyatt Regency (Image: Karon Liu)

2 thoughts on “Yorkville 1: King West 0. Hotel workers picket outside Hyatt”

steve says:

September 10, 2010 at 4:50 pm

yorkville sucks. they can laugh all they want, they have to go to yorkville everyday! the street of money hungry fake people, and $9000 shoes.
CEE says:

September 11, 2010 at 9:49 pm

Yeah..Yorkville that used to be… ova and done.. King West has way too much pretense.. it wont last…fake ass people and waiters/servers with bad attitude like at Brusaii.. In the end, lets allbe glad we still have Queer West! LOL