I am a current associate with Marriott's Information Resources department based in Maryland. We were recently notified that 2 months after Mitt Romney rejoined the board that IR will be going through a "Transformation". This "transformation" will consist of Marriott "Sourcing" their IR labor with external vendors. In other words, there will be close to 1000 Maryland based IT jobs shipped overseas.
Obviously Mitt Romney has little to do with the day to day operations of Marriott but the bitter irony of his reunion with his mentor (Bill Marriott) and the news of our outsourcing is apparent. To not think that the board has an influence on the direction of the company is naive. Marriott has always prided itself on their motto "Take good care of your associates and your associates will take good care of your guests, and your guests will keep coming back again and again." It will not be long before there will be no more Associates to take care of the guests, they will all be vendors.
Marriott is adamantly anti-union, so we have little recourse for this action other than to pull a work action. This will be almost impossible to pull off in secret with 100% participation. They had to tell us of their plans early as you can not fire 1000 IR employees and replace them with vendors on the fly, there's too much knowledge transfer that needs to take place. So we do have some time but not much.
See below for the e-mail that I have sent out to all General Managers, Franchise owners, board members and as much media as I can think of. Any assistance or guidance would be appreciated.
If you feel so inclined feel free to email:
Arne.Sorenson@Marriott.com (President and CEO)
Bruce.Hofffmeister@marriott.com (Global CIO)
and let them know that you will be taking your business elsewhere as a result of this action
lrobbins@gazette.net (Lindsey Robbins,Business reporter,The Gazette)
and ask her to publish the story that she is working on about this news.
Feel free to follow along on twitter @Moutsourced
Thanks
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