Press Releases September 29, 2023
Detroit—This evening at 09:40pm, the Detroit Casino Council announced that members from MGM Grand Detroit, Hollywood at Greektown and MotorCity casinos — voted 99% “yes” to authorize a strike, if deemed necessary by the worker negotiating committee. Workers flooded the Teamsters Hall today between 7:00am-9:00pm to cast their ballots with the results revealed shortly after the polls closed […]
Posts November 19, 2014
The governors of NY and NJ authorized an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 for thousands of airport workers early this year, However, many workers – including the over 7,000 catering and concession workers in LaGuardia, JFK and Newark airports – were not included in the original mandate. On November 18, Local 100 members […]
Posts March 10, 2014
Drawing inspiration from the demand of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that airlines bring wages for contract workers up to $10.10 per hour, workers around the country jumped into the fray! In early March, airline catering professionals at airports across the country delivered letters to the corporate offices of American, Delta, […]
Press Releases July 21, 2021
Las Vegas, NV – On Tuesday, July 20, 2021, the United States District Court in Nevada ordered a rare and extraordinary injunction against Station Casinos’ Red Rock Casino for their outrageous conduct during the December 2019 National Labor Board Relations (NLRB) union election at the property. In its thorough 34-page decision, the federal court found […]
Press Releases May 4, 2012
Following a thorough, four-month investigation, the National Labor Relations Board’s counsel in Miami has filed a formal complaint against the operators of the Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale, Florida. The complaint comes after 10 workers who were leaders of a union organizing drive were fired in November 2011. The complaint asserts, among other things, that […]
Press Releases November 9, 2009
This week thousands of workers in a dozen cities across North America will hold a coordinated series of public demonstrations to demand that Hyatt Hotels (NYSE: H) "Bring Back the Hyatt 100." Hyatt fired 100 housekeepers from its three Boston area hotels after asking the workers to train their replacements from an outsourcing agency. The […]
Posts May 4, 2012
Following a thorough, four-month investigation, the National Labor Relations Board’s counsel in Miami has filed a formal complaint against the operators of the Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale, Florida. The complaint comes after 10 workers who were leaders of a union organizing drive were fired in November 2011. The complaint asserts, among other things, that […]
Posts May 8, 2012
Today, May 8, more than 500 people will march and 30 will take arrest in an act of civil disobedience tomorrow to support the 10 worker-leaders fired during an organizing drive last November at Mardi Gras Casino in Florida. Those who plan to be arrested include fired workers from Mardi Gras Casino, clergy, community leaders, […]
Press Releases May 8, 2012
Today, May 8, a group of 30 workers, clergy, community leaders, and concerned citizens plan on taking arrest as an act of civil disobedience in support of the 10 worker-leaders fired during an organizing effort at Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach, and in support of the Florida Freedom Charter. The civil disobedience participants will […]
Press Releases August 5, 2010
Irvine, CA: Hotel workers from the HEI-owned Embassy Suites hotel in Irvine filed complaints today demanding back pay – of more than $180,000 collectively — for missed breaks. More than 50 percent of the hotel’s non-management staff filed the complaints, with the majority saying they have been repeatedly denied the 10-minute breaks entitled by state […]