The service and hospitality workers of Hyatt Hotels in San Antonio, TX, including those at the Grand Hyatt of San Antonio are engaged in an ongoing five year struggle with Hyatt Hotels for fair pay, better working conditions, and proper benefits. UNITE HERE, the global labor organizing union working with Hyatt workers all over the world issued a global bann of Hyatt Hotels earlier in the year that has since been lifted in good faith as Hyatt workers in cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles have now ratified contracts. While these are good first steps in attaining social justice for all Hyatt workers, workers at Hyatt Hotels in many small and midsize cities are still actively organizing and fighting for protections and rights in the workplace. The Society of Social Work Research Conference has a contractual obligation to hold the 2014 conference at Hyatt Hotels, despite the injustices experienced by workers of the San Antonio Grand Hyatt. It is the stance of UNITE HERE, the hospitality workers of the Grand Hyatt of San Antonio, and a group of us within social work and similarly allied professions that it is unethical to hold the SSWR conference as planned at the expense of perpetuating the injustices experienced by Hyatt workers by giving our business to Hyatt Hotels. Please sign this petition and send a message to SSWR leadership to cancel this year’s conference, change venues, or push the leadership of Hyatt Hotels in San Antonio harder to do the right thing by workers. In the words of Paulo Freire, “Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”