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 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 apartment rent and the bills and most importantly our healthcare. at present, he can say that we cannot afford to pay more for the healthcare, especially my husband. right now he is sick and having dialysis. i have to look for one or more jobs.

aside from that, we have no time to spend with my family. the gap in my workplace because of more work loads and lastly, despite the fact that the that i work for more in the palace. i have the fear, the fear of losing my job. this will lead to a very serious stress, which most likely leads to sickness, alcoholism, or even death. we are all here, our union, of

course our respected supervisors, we are here to voice our demands and our support for one another. >> your time is up. >> to support one another and to fight for the benefits. what they deserve. >> next speaker. >> hi. my name is nicole. good afternoon to all of you. i'm sorry, i'm so nervous. i'm the housekeeper currently with saint francis. i am here because i have two kids. i am the main income for my family. it's not hurting me it's hurting my family. i always work hard. i ask for marriott to give us a

good medi-cal. to ensure myself and my family's health. also good retirement. i'm sorry. >> take a deep breath. >> i can enjoy seeing my kids growing up. i want to have energy. he made a choice that we can have more hours. living in san francisco is expensive. our wages it's difficult to pay for the room and food for us. sign a contract now. one job should be enough. thank you. >> next speaker. >> this is not.

good afternoon. my name is eva lena cravens i work as a room attendant at the western saint francisment i want to thank you for having us. this is our village, san francisco supervisors, kudos to you. i am on strike because i have to work two jobs. there's no job security. i have to wait by the phone to see if i work. i've been working at the saint francis for fours years. i'm on strike for my healthcare because i'm on strike because of my healthcare and so many work related injuries due to green choice. i'm going to tell you about green choice. green choice is a program where the guests get so many points and we can't clean their room for three days but they can ask us for con daments, towels so we're cleaning their room from the outside. by the time we clean their room 72 hours later, it's a room they wanted clean in 30 minutes but it takes us from an hour to 15

minutes and we have to change everything in the room. green choice is gold to the marriott and death for us. you have three days that you are out and then you have 14 rooms a day to do and six to nine double and you have guests waiting and special requests. you are rushing, you are injuring yourself that means in a day's work you will make 22 beds, clean 14 bathrooms, vacuum 14 rooms, dust, whatever the room needs all within seven hours. believe me, you are rushing, running very scared you won't finish. you do it because you have the responsibility to your family to pay rent, bills, food, education and healthcare. i have three job related injuries. i have to have surgeon my elbow in the near future. i came with no health problems.

i was health ski flying around just doing it and now i have problems with my shoulder, my left foot. >> thank you, very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> i'd like to invite. i'd like to have gustavo, kirk payalle, candida, frayedo mauriceo and eleusis walter. >> good afternoon, everyone.

my name is mini. >> lucy: lu. i work on the hotel. i am on strike. i have to move a lot of heavy things, such things and deep clean. when the hotel forced to schedule enough people, my co-workers and i have to work extremely fast to get everything done in order to leave on time. that is the too much to leave us to get injured. and unfortunately the marriott doesn't look at our centers. we hadn't hurt our bodies to get it all done. we deserve a better contract. one job should be enough. thank you. >> hello.

>> good afternoon, my name is gustavo. i work for the hotel. i am a janitor. i have to work two jobs. to be able to pay for my bills and my rent. i can't pay for healthcare 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 grandchildren in order to pay the rent to work and live in this city so i had to give up my privacy. we have to pay the rent and now we pay 2650 so it's kind of crazy. i have to give up my privacy. i strike marriott because i have a demanding job that is very

stressful. i have to go to the emergency room three times because -- i have to take maud in order to make it through the day. i have a job for two people. one job should be enough. to pay the rent, pay the bills, and put food on the table. i ask for your support to marriott sign the contract. it's not fair that we're struggling when we work for the most rich corporation in the world. marriott, sign the contract. thank you for your support. thank you. >> i'm going to call some more cards to come up. after frayedo an frayed.

>> go ahead. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for all of your time and encouraging words of support. i served five years in the marine core and honestly, i have never felt more american than i do at this moment. that's how much i appreciate this opportunity to speak to you right now. i've been a doorman at the five-star saint regis hotel since 2012. opponents of our strike say we're not supposed to make careers out of these particular jobs but i've already been laboring in hotels for 14 years. and for most of that time i truly enjoyed it. i proudly served world famous and infamous celebrities. i'll put smiles on kids' faces

and made the stoneyest face dudes chuckle. i can even make willie brown laugh from time to time. i fell in love with the front desk agent, we've been committed to each other for 10 years and we got married in 2016. together, we traveled and had the privilege of staying in some of the finest hotels on the planet, all thanks to a job that i'm not supposed to make a career out of. plenty of you appreciate the benefits that technology and innovation offer while we pay a stiff price for you to do so. before uber and lyft came along i could spend a total of one to two hours of my shift hailing taxicabs. these days i consider hailing three cabs within the space of 15 minutes to the day's big rush. electronic payment apps mean fewer guests carry cash, guests tell me i'll get you later. and all i can do is nod my head, smile and believe them.

i'm forced to relay on an hourly wage, 86 cents above the city minimum. my rent for a two bedroom apartment is $2700 a month. before the strike i signed up for door cash and amazon to subsidize the 400 weekly picketting stipend. but after walking 30 to 30,000 steps on the picket pick -- thank you, very much. thank you. next speaker, please. >> this marriott hotels has hundreds of thousands of employees and this is a good example on how the price fixing of living in san francisco correlates with the demonstrations. you always say the medium income

in san francisco is 55, 60, 80% of the a.p.i. yet when you make these calculations, none of these people's income is included in the formula. that's why they're out on the border and homeless and working several jobs at one time. it's not fair. you know good and will in order to live in san francisco doing the time of work in their type of capacity and occupation is about $184,000 a year. you got a poop squat detail that is going around san francisco sweeping up feces from humans and service dogs and service dogs that are not attended and you pay the poop squad detail $184,000 a year. which is close to the same type of work that they're doing too. workers are taking care of their patients and giving them baths and des posing their human waste

discharge which is exactly the type of clean ups that the damn poop squad is doing in san francisco. it's another example of price fixing. which is done by this administration. they're never included. never included in your calculations when you make the presentations talking about the medium income that people make is at 70, $50,000 a year. it's $90,000 a year and you claim that you surveyed everybody in the area but you never surveyed them. that's why you price fix and don't include them in the opportunity. and then when they stroke striku wonder why. it's not fair. you need to stop and treat people fairly. pay them a living wage equal to what the pop squad make. $184,000 a year.

>> she will make the testimony part in english and part in chinese. good afternoon, everybody. my maim is may high wong. i work as a housekeeper as marriott union square for 15 years or more. i have a son and he goes to the 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. >> thank you. next speaker. >> ok. i'm eye serve are at the western saint francis and i've been there four years. i am on strike because i am living on a razor's edge from one day to the next. i am born and raised here in the bay area. living here in san francisco is a very difficult thing for working people. i'm a third or fourth generation san franciscoan. previous generations were able to boy homes, we're not able to do that anymore. i'm a renter now. i live in a s.r.o. i pay a lot of money for no

kitchen, no bathroom, bedbug season, and mice. things like that. knowing that they're renovating right next to me, building up these nicer buildings and knowing that i can't, it's not even close for me to afford those things. i know, we started at this strike saying i was one rent payment away from the street. that money has come and gone. that payment has gone in. what am i going to do next month? i don't know. and i know that the one thing i do know is that the marriott, like he said, is the richest hotel company in the history of the planet. that is -- just that statement means a lot. those guys could have signed this contract the first day but they chose not to. we're negotiating with them for months but they chose not to. every time that we talked to

them, i didn't see arnie sorrien sorenson in that room. we know the marriott can. we hope that the marriott decide to. we're disappointed they're not here today. so we know that one job should be enough. make that happen. sign that contract now. thank you. >> hi, good afternoon. thank you for taking time to meet with us. my name is diana. i am a san francisco native, born and raised. i invested in a lot of time and effort when i chose the career i did, which is the culinary industry. i worked in a lot of other restaurants before i got into marriott. hoping that it would help me build a better name for myself. as time has gone by, marriott has asked of me to work more

than i should. i have just worked over 60 hours in three days. it's not fair that they don't want to cover our health benefits when the healthcare is the biggest issue for everyone in this room right now, including yourselves. we live in a city where it's in demand to have two jobs. one just to pay rent and one for survival. it should not be that way. we should not be working ourselves to death and have nothing to show for it. we should be able to retire with dignity. we should take care of our kids. have a decent living. marriott's slogan is, employee's first. then do the right thing and take care of your ploy' employees fi. thank you.

>> duck kwan win. is that person here? after him would be carlos. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is duck win. i have been working at the saint francis for 26 years. i am having a jury at work. a permanent injury but i still love to work because i need the healthcare for my wife and myself. i am asking for your help and tell them to sign the contract as soon as possible because we love to work. we want to come back to work. thank you so much. >> carlos. >> my name is carlos. i work in the banquet at the

marriott marque hotel and i'm on strike. family healthcare is one with the most important things to me in this country. i cover myself, my wife, and our three daughters. with my healthcare at the marriott marques. my oldest daughter has a pacemaker. and we rely on having medical benefits to survive. we cannot afford to pay more family medical benefits. there is a lot of expenses in the cost of living that we cannot control. like gas, for example. like groceries, et cetera.

we can control the cost of the healthcare. we know that the marriott can afford it. so we believe that one job should be enough. thank you for your support. >> jose perez. >> hi, good evening. my name is jose perez. and i work for marriott junior. i've been working for marriott company for almost 12 years. we are here demanding to this company our healthcare, wages, and benefits. and retirement. but it's not only healthcare benefits and better pay and retirement, it's more that we need to and we want to receive more respect from them. because for this company, we are

numbers for them. we're not humans. i believe that every single human being they have to be treated with respect, with dignity to have a better place to live and to work in a happy place as well. but unfortunately, for this company, they see us like a number so we know and it's been so clear since the beginning every single negotiation that they don't make any movements, they don't -- they reject all our proposals and for them the first need they've been saying in healthcare is expensive. we know healthcare and our america is expensive and in california. but at the same time, they have the money. they have been making tons of money from us and we understand

healthcare is expensive for all of us but we deserve. for us and for every single local members or in eye united members we are making the one for them. we are the one we deal with the customers, we are the one giving the good smile to the customers. we are the one -- >> thank you, very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, everybody and supervisors. i am rufina. i'm working at the saint regis hotel for about 13 years now. i would like everyone here, i'm

just asking for marriott to pay us for a fair share, which is job security, fair rates and healthcare benefits. thank you. >> next speaker. after that would be nancy lee, looks like brian ho, lydia, kelly lay, and marion lavano. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is marrily. i work as a health attendant. i'm on strike right now. as a mother of two and a husband that does not have a job due to health issues, i must work overtime. since i do overtime, i rarely have the chance to spend time with my family.

working as a housekeeper is not enough to support my family. my hotel job is in jeopardy. this will eventually take over my occupation and the issue is the healthcare prize increasing. if the cost of healthcare is too high, my family's health will be effected. this healthcare coverage my husband who has health problems and my children who may also have the health problems in the future. my job has a huge workload. i might get injury any time i am at work because of how difficult it is. how many things i carry around to clean the room. as for management, i do not feey have is to pay me less and work more. i don't feel my personal being care while working on the job.

thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. nancy lee. >> good afternoon. my name is nancy lee. i am working at the saint francis over 30 years. i am supervisor. everyday after work, instead of enjoying dinner with my family i am worried. i am worried about tomorrow. i am worried about the next week schedule. because i am worried about my job. our union, we need job security. thank you, very much. >> thank you, next speaker. brian. >> good afternoon. my name is brian and i work at the w here in the city specifically to pbx which is a telecommunications department. i understand our strike has drawn attention and support from many other industries, i hope our message is clear to everyone. one job should be enough.

to let us sustain ourselves in a city we love and we can tell our loved ones we can support them and have piece of mind with healthcare. i want everyone regardless of what industry you work into understand when a corporation you work for is a leader in their industry and boasted an increase in revenue, they have a responsibility to provide for their workers a fair wage and affordable healthcare. instead of celebrating a increase in profits and revenue with marriott we are fighting four our jobs. when a corporation is as profitable as they are, their workers should not have to worry about job security. i, like many of my colleagues, in many fear of losing my job and what i fear most is not for myself but the moral compass of marriott, in industry and job security of the generations after me. [ please stand by ]

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 generous government corporate tax windfall. they are a company that can clearly afford to sign this contract. so i ask this: if a rising tide

lifts all boats, then why is the marriott not willing to raise the boats of their workers, the same workers who have helped create these record profits, so same on the marriott for driving these same workers into the street. shame on you, marriott. sign the contract, and thank you, board of supervisors, for your continued support. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker -- i'm going to call a bunch of speakers and finish up these cards. lee huang, susana hernandez, gloria nicolai, yee tan, and rebecca. lee, are you here? if not, just come on up. >> good afternoon, everybody.

my name is susana hernandez. i work in the dining room for the marriott, and i am on a strike. i was part of the group of the people that had to work to pay my rent and expenses and bills. i have to sacrifice time for my family but even had to put my own health in second place until unfortunately was diagnosed with breast cancer. in the middle of these terrible moment, i felt blessed to have medical insurance to help cover all my expenses. if i didn't have medical insurance, i wouldn't be able to pay for the chemotherapy, radiations, medicine, and the surgeries to remove areas affected by the cancer.

the treatment continued even after the chemotherapy to now three years later. i am still taking medication due to all the side effects that the cancer caused. now i wouldn't be able to work two jobs because physically, my body had suffered in the negative side effects of the treatment, but i feel the stress, thinking what will happen if marriott doesn't sign the contract? how will i be able to pay my medical expenses, my rent, bills, and food? this is why i'm asking marriott please think of all the people that depends on our medical insurance. i have worked for 20 years at the marriott hotel, and i'm just asking please sign our contract. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. just come on up.

next speaker. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is rebecca. i have been working at the marriott marquis for 18 years, and i also have been working at the st. regis hotel for 13 years. so far, most of the workers you have heard earlier talk about their term stories. i, on the other hand -- personal stories. i, on the other hand, will not do it. marriott is now the biggest hotel chain in the world, and it's largely because of its employees, us. we have made billions from marriott. some of you might not know marriott's philosophy: take care of your employees, and they will

take care of your guests. it's why marriott has 6,300 locations all over the world, but why we on the street now? we are on the street because marriott has neglected to take care of us. we are now bullied by the same company we have made -- helped build. now we are left with no choice but to fight for justice and our rights. we are just asking for what we deserve. marriott, please. abide by your own philosophy. take care of your employees, and we will take care of your guests. sign the contract now. thank you. >> hello. my name is gloria. i have been working at the westin hotel for 41 years.

y i have seen many changes in the hotel industry, especially in how's keeping department -- housekeeping department, the green choice, they call it. it's a very, very dirty program. the green choice, it means to save the environment for the blue planet. they don't follow that. they should go to another planet. but it doesn't -- but it does the opposite. it forces workers to use more chemicals in every refused room, we, the room of cleaners, stay at home with no pay. the company save more money. the company makes billions in profit every year, and we stay at home? that is unfair. and with no pay, that is unfair.

and if they call us to go to work, we, the room cleaners get paid $23 and no cents an hour, and with no workload added on our backs. i see workers getting injured more and more every year. what we need is wage increase, job security, pension for any retirement, pension for my retirement especially, because i'm getting up to there. we want respect from the managers. our time is valuable. we need to stop working two jobs to survive, especially here. one job should be enough, and that's my number one comment.

thank you. >> good afternoon. i work in san francisco since 1984, almost 35 years. i have my kid sitting on the desk like this. we want them to be lawyers, in politics, doctors. i thinking about the bread and butter, how can i send them to college. my daughter born with a preexisting heart condition, but i send her to the law school, and she already passed the law test, but i'm thinking she has to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for student especialloa. you should hear more things other than one job should be enough. if i can't pay my daughter's student loan -- i would like to see my daughter sitting here.

she -- she went for the halloween -- i'm not just saying for her to make it popular, i'm just saying how much we want the people to sit like you guys. this year, if they're going hundred years back, you -- marriott will buy hotel all over the world. if i had two houses, i would sell one house to take care of my family. they don't do that. they say one family, one company, one vision. they don't sell the other house to take care of it. one day, i think i'm going to have to live in the garage and rent the house, so i can survive the bread and butter. you better listen to me.

>> supervisor yee: thank you very much. thank you. thank you. [inaudible] >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. thank you. [inaudible] >> supervisor yee: next speaker. [inaudible] >> hello, everyone. my name is serg morales. i work at marriott hotel. for me, one job to be enough

because it take all my time. 16 hours a day, i don't have time to play with my daughter. at midnight, when i go, i wake up my daughter to play with her, let's go an hour every day. we do this because our families, and we cannot spend time with them. that's the truth. one job should be enough. [applause] >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon, all supervisors. my name is yu lee. i'm room attendant. i want to show you some -- how hard is my job.

[speaking native language]

>> i want to talk something very painful story about the room attendants. actually, as far as i know, my -- my team has a 14-a staff, but they always will have to work injuries in the workplace. they always will have the back, leg, and hand injuries because of the -- in the workplaces, and we usually work in hours -- sometimes eight hours a day, and we also have multiple things to deal with for a day, as well. there's many -- always, it's sensitive, so many times, it's

painful for us to handle those type of jobs. [speaking native language] >> so 80% of our colleagues are immigrants, and because of the language barriers, most of us cannot work fog the very relaxing jobs or very -- work

for the very relaxing jobs or very casual jobs. most of the work is very hard for us, but we don't have any choices. and -- but you know what? we are here, and we want you guys' support. and to be honest, we do not want to strike, and we do not want to make the noise, and we do not want to interrupt tourism, but that's the reason why we are -- really want you guys to hear our voice and want you guys to support us. >>interpreter: oh, one more thing. [speaking native language]

>> supervisor yee: can you transma translate, and we'll be done. >> yes. marriott makes millions of dollars around the world, and they always tell us how we help to earn them that kind of moneys, so we can't understand how marriott can pay us that kind of moneys. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> my name is jesse stanton. i'm employed for the city and county of san francisco office of the medical examiner. i'm here in support of the marriott workers, and i'm here to say that the city workers, docto doctors and nurses of 1021 all

stand in support. it's telling that the company couldn't be bothered to send a single representative, so i hope even with that disappointment that you all will be able somehow to help them understand that it's time for the company to sign the contract so these people can get back to work. thanks. thanks for your time. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jose zepeda, and i work at the francisco hotels. i'm a banquet server. marriott hasn't been very respectful to the workers. no need to ask. also, to the city, marriott said their goal is to make millions

of dollars into their pocket. they don't know the damage they've made, not only to their workers of the city of san francisco without signing a contract. they say they love their neighbors. their neighbors, they're suffering outside, the business, because of them. but they try to blame on us. they don't want to hear the proposals that we make to them. how much longer it's going to take for them to realize how much damage they make to our family and to the city that they say they love. there's no love if they don't sign a contract. marriott, if you don't sign a contract, we're still going to be there on the street. marriott, if you don't sign, all day, all night, you're going to

hear from us. thank you, members of the board of supervisors for giving us the time to hear our demands. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm david williams, and i'm the president of the west bay chapter seiu 1021, and a member of the san francisco living wage coalition, and i'm here in solidarity of all the workers and the striking workers of the marriott. i think you've heard wonderful and moving stories from them today. i only hope this board can big o out -- figure out a way to do more than listen to this either.

i'm hoping you can either come up with a resolution, come up with a regulation, come up with some way through either negotiations and mediation all in concert with local 2 and the striking workers to work with them and bring the strike to a positive resolution on behalf of local 2. thanks. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. >> i wasn't going to come and say anything. in fact, i didn't even want to strike. i told my employers that i appreciated them x allow them very much for allowing me to work with the company, and so i've only been here a year, and i've learned a lot, and i've met

some incredibly wonderful people that i met, some friends, and they've been here 20, 30 -- some ten -- it's all over ten. when they tell me how long they've been here, i shrink. i'm going to stay in the corner until i get my years up. but when the strike came, i told my employers that i didn't want to do it because i didn't feel like it was -- you know, i have really no say. and i worked for the city, for d.p.w., where i've cleaned this building, all the way up to larkin. i've seen all of the dirt, and i understand because a lot of those people who are out there are my age or around my age. they're not old veterans or people who are just dieing, they're young people out there. they're very discouraged about working and just even -- because they know it's not going to get them nowhere. the rages that they make, the rent has sky rocketed through

the roof. i just seen -- i don't remember what his name is, but he is a representative, and i said this wonderfully incredible speech about how we were doing with the company, and we were the best this year. and d.p.w. said, just straight work. it's good when you can have fun and enjoy your work. that's what makes the work even better, but now, all of a sudden, i'm hearing three hour shifts, and we have to pay for this and that. i'm hearing how much money you all are making, you're international, china, africa. you guys are everywhere. we're just asking for wages. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> when i decide to work, i

never thought we are on this track. so right now, we are on -- on this strike. so right now, we are on this strike one month because marriott never respect their worker, the person who making benefits. so i just want to say to marriott, sign the contract. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is fortunato martinez. thank you for having this hearing. i'm a little saddened, but i'm also angry that no one from the marriott corporation has came down to hear our voice, but yet, they want to make the money off our blood, our sweat, our tears, altogether the hours that -- all the hours that we put in from our families. some people come from modesto, stockton. the commute