Workers protest ‘fake’ green initiatives at Toronto hotels
Room attendants at Sheraton say hotel’s initiatives don’t help environment, only cut jobs
New green initiative being touted as environmentally friendly at three Toronto hotels are bogus, and do little to “conserve natural resources” as the hotels claim, according to hotel workers.
Instead, the “Make a Green Choice” program being offered at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, and the “Green Stay” programs at the Delta Chelsea and Delta East hotels merely give the hotels a way to save money by reducing cleaning staff.
“From our perspective, these programs are doing virtually nothing for the environment,” said Brigida Ruiz, who works as a room attendant at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. “Instead, what they are really intended do is greatly reduce the number of room attendants employed by the hotel each day,” she said.
