Posts March 10, 2009
Earlier today, the Employee Free Choice Act was introduced in the House and Senate. It’s being supported by, among others, millions of American workers who would like a union – and with it a union contract. It’s being opposed by CEOs who you can be sure all bargained for a contract before they ever set […]
Posts September 18, 2008
Striking hotel workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago organized for picketing action and protest with UNITE HERE Local 1 after learning that ‘America’s Next Top Model’ was holding auditions at the hotel. In early September, the popular reality television show announced that it would stage a local casting call at the Congress, but […]
Posts August 12, 2018
On August 15, hundreds of UNITE HERE members will join thousands of other union members and faith and community allies for a demonstration to call for an end to family separation and detention. Liberty & Justice For All: Labor United to Free Our Children will be the largest labor-led demonstration on immigration in the nation. […]
Posts March 6, 2012
UNITE HERE Local 54 members voted overwhelmingly to approve a new three-year contract with the Atlantic Club in Atlantic City. The new contract covers over 600 cooks, housekeepers, bartenders, cocktail servers and other service workers at the Atlantic Club. With the new agreement workers will continue to receive free health care and an employer-sponsored defined […]
Posts February 9, 2012
UNITE HERE Local 54 members in Atlantic City have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract with the Gold Nugget Atlantic City. Under the three-year agreement workers will continue to receive free family health care and an employer-sponsored pension. All workers will receive at least one wage increase over the course of the agreement with […]
Posts February 24, 2005
A major victory was won this month in the fight for hotel workers and their families to maintain free family health care coverage. The EC announced that effective immediately in all EC Hotels, the EC will discontinue the $10 weekly co-payment by hotel employees, and return to making contributions on all hours worked and paid […]
Posts January 23, 2012
Today, housekeepers’ union UNITE HERE is asking the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to consider a new proposal to prevent disabling injuries in hotel room cleaners and save hotels money on workers compensation claims. The proposed safety standard complements Senate Bill 432, a two-year bill that when introduced last year stirred considerable debate […]
Posts October 3, 2011
A California state hearing officer has found the Embassy Suites in Irvine guilty of denying rest breaks to hotel workers and has ordered the hotel pay $36,000 to workers. Dozens of hotel workers filed complaints with the State of California in August 2010 after being denied the breaks to which they were entitled by law. […]
Posts October 13, 2005
Madison, WI-"At the Common Council meeting of October 11, a new ordinance creating humane standards for city garment purchases was adopted unanimously. The new policy requires that apparel purchases by the city, like uniforms for police, fire and parks departments, be made in conditions that respect the economic dignity and human rights of workers, including […]
Posts October 6, 2005
At over 40 campuses across the United States, students are demanding that their colleges and universities take the next step in ending sweatshops. The United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) has developed the New Sweatfree Campaign, which demands that all collegiate apparel brands source from good factories, where workers have a legitimate, representative union or other […]
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