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Gay hating Marriott just bought out SPG or Sheraton and related chains.

I do biz with them due to loyalty awards, locations, etc.

How Marriott’s owner put aside his Mormon beliefs to cash in on the LGBT travel market

Marriott is Mormon, Mormon is anti gay, period

marriott is worse than most, while supporting his church which is ANTI Gay, he promotes business with Gay people to profit off of them

https://qz.com/216328/how-marriots-owne ... el-market/

I have a friend and an aquaintence working at a Marriott, both immigrants from Asia, one gay. Haven't asked them about how this is affecting them, yeet. But HERE 2 has been working on Marriott for decades.

They might be fair to Gay employees, domt know, if so probably have to. They give 10% or more of their money to a church dedicated to Gay hatred. Basic math to me. And now that they own SPG or Sheraton, I guess I have to find a new place to stay.

If I am wrong, please tell me somebody, it will make my life EASIER if I am wrong.

In N Out gives only to cons is what i hear, that fucks me up too.

I'm betting there are probably tons of LGBTQ employees at Marriotts in the Bay Area. Probably like at Catholic hospitals and the like. Doesn't mean they're fair or great places to work, but a person's got to earn a living.

I dunno...all the name brands are sh#ts when it comes to social issues, in my view. ALL of them, Catholic, Mormon, blathertarian/Silly Conned Valley, grocery chains...all of them.

I dont know Libertas, seems like Marriott is the type of company you should be supporting. Yes, the leadership is Mormon and finds that important. But he is also vocal and visible in support of LGBQT rights and often has a 100 percent rating from the HRC.

Yeah, its probably largely tied to a profit motive....after-all Marriott is also one of the largest liquor sellers in the US, also in opposition to his Church. But then (almost) all businesses are focused on profit (as are almost all employees.)

Its very easy to support something when your community is in lockstep with you. He should be respected for standing up and doing the right thing when he does potentially have something to lose. (I've said it before, we want our leaders to be 100% pure....but no one, no organization, is.)

I dont know Libertas, seems like Marriott is the type of company you should be supporting. Yes, the leadership is Mormon and finds that important. But he is also vocal and visible in support of LGBQT rights and often has a 100 percent rating from the HRC.

Yeah, its probably largely tied to a profit motive....after-all Marriott is also one of the largest liquor sellers in the US, also in opposition to his Church. But then (almost) all businesses are focused on profit (as are almost all employees.)

Its very easy to support something when your community is in lockstep with you. He should be respected for standing up and doing the right thing when he does potentially have something to lose. (I've said it before, we want our leaders to be 100% pure....but no one, no organization, is.)

Nah, we don't have to be grateful to Mormons, or respect them. This isn't about purity; their institutions don't respect us and seek to make discriminatory laws against us. It's impossible to respect that.

Nah, we don't have to be grateful to Mormons, or respect them. This isn't about purity; their institutions don't respect us and seek to make discriminatory laws against us. It's impossible to respect that.

One thing I've learned about labor disputes is don't become too invested in the evilness of some individual company because sometimes those things do get settled.

Union and company come to an agreement, and then, the very next day they're fine and dandy alright.

It's pretty easy transition to make if I don't get too invested in the evilness of them up front.

Its not about that at all. Its about recognizing Marriott who apparently, is openly, visibly and vocally challenging those positions within his church. That's much more difficult than, say, someone who only takes the stand that's popular with his friends and neighbors. It's easy to take a stand on the RFL Board. Its another to have put his company, and his family, in the forefront of a challenge. (As always its much easier when you are rich, of course.)

BTW, this mornings news is that the unions have come to an agreement with Marriott.

Its about recognizing Marriott who apparently, is openly, visibly and vocally challenging those positions within his church.

Yeah...I said they reached an agreement with Marriott. That's should be the leading agreement which hopefully others will follow.

Just like reaching an agreement with one automaker doesnt guarantee an agreement with others.

Marriott workers are on strike.

In eight states, about two dozen (out of 850 company managed hotels in the US/about 7,700 of 140,000 managed employees in the US). Chicago not part....that location was settled a month back.

Dont cross the line in affected locations.

Go ahead, try to pretend they don't matter, for what reason I don't know. And only a tiny percentage of those Marriott hotels were union.

more than month-long strike by Westin San Diego Gaslamp workers will deliver a 40 percent pay hike for hotel housekeepers, stronger protections for sexual harassment and a first-time pension.

Details of the new four-year contract were made public Tuesday following the end this week of the last of the hotel walkouts that had targeted Marriott International properties involving 7,700 workers across eight cities in the U.S.

The Unite Here labor union representing the workers had agreed to not divulge terms of the individual contracts until all strikes were settled. The last of those was in San Francisco where 2,500 workers had been on strike for more than 60 days. They are returning to work on Wednesday now that they have approved a new contract.

The San Diego strike, which marked the first hotel walkout in the county since 2000, when workers at the Hotel del Coronado struck for one day, ended in early November

The financial terms of the agreements negotiated in each of the affected cities varies based on their respective economic demographics. In San Diego, hotel housekeepers, who tend to be among the lowest paid workers and represent the largest of more than two dozen different union job classifications at the Westin, had been earning $14.25 an hour, significantly below their peers at other San Diego union hotels.

The Westin’s 162 workers represented by Unite Here had been without a new contract since April of last year

With the new agreement, their pay will jump to $18 an hour next July and will increase a few times more until 2022 when hourly wages will reach $20, said Rick Bates, research analyst for Unite Here Local 30. By comparison, housekeepers at the Hotel del Coronado, also a union property, currently earn $18 an hour, and at the San Diego Hilton Bayfront, the hourly pay is $17.35.