Billionaire Democrat J.B. Pritzker Launches IL Gov Campaign On Shameless Hypocrisy

Yesterday, Billionaire Democrat J.B. Pritzker announced his intention to run for Illinois governor in 2018, promising to advocate for a $15 minimum wage. But unfortunately, the hotel chain owner’s actions don’t match his words on wages. Pritzker’s long-documented history of mistreating his workers and fighting against paying living wages contradicts his campaign’s platform.

NTK Network reports:

“… the Pritzker family has a long history of fighting against paying employees a living wage, making workers work in unsafe conditions, and using controversial tactics to break up union demonstrations. 

UNITE HERE waged a four-year campaign against the Hyatt hotel empire over its inhumane treatment of works and unfair pay practices.

According to reports, the hotel chain made housekeepers, “clean as many as 30 rooms a day, a pace that causes disabling injuries.”…

FairHotel.org reports that management at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento, CA “refused to agree to a card-check neutrality agreement with UNITE HERE Local 49 that would have given majority of the hotel staff a fair process to choose representation free from intimidation and delay. Workers still do not have a fair process to choose the union to this day.”

In 2012, the Hyatt Centric Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, CA, “agreed to an unprecedented settlement with Cal/OSHA resolving a set of citations, two of which pertained to repetitive motion injuries.”…

Despite his background of controversial policies toward workers, J.B. Pritzker seems to believe he can fool Illinois voters by engaging in shameless hypocrisy one day into his gubernatorial bid. Illinois voters want leaders whose words match their actions, clearly J.B. Pritzker does not fit that bill.