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 […]
Press Releases January 10, 2017
Washington—Today the Alliance to Fight the 40, a broad-based coalition committed to repealing the 40 percent tax on employer-sponsored health benefits – the so-called “Cadillac Tax” – applauded Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), for their bipartisan, bicameral reintroduction of legislation to protect the […]
Press Releases January 31, 2018
New York, NY – Effective January 1st, 2018, all eligible UNITE HERE workers with benefits through UNITE HERE HEALTH now have inclusive transgender health benefits, including coverage of gender confirmation surgery, hormone therapy, counseling services, and more. These benefits have already been available to all UNITE HERE union staff, and we are proud to announce […]
Press Releases October 31, 2016
Hospitality Union Seeks to Elect First Latina Senator, Stop Healthcare Taxes Las Vegas, NV –The largest political operation in the battleground state of Nevada will double in size today as over 150 UNITE HERE members from across the country join canvassing teams from the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Clark and Washoe counties. The […]
Posts November 2, 2009
After months of working with no contract and facing the prospect of losing the free family health benefits that they’d been receiving for years, the cafeteria workers at Hunter College finally won a collective bargaining agreement from AVI Foodsystems. This contract — ratified unanimously on October 27 — includes free family health benefits, a significant […]
Press Releases July 28, 2015
[Washington, D.C.] Today, UNITE HERE joins labor, businesses and consumer advocacy groups to launch the Alliance to Fight the 40, a coalition calling for the repeal of an onerous 40% tax on health benefits starting 2018 as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). UNITE HERE, which represents 270,000 housekeepers, cooks and other workers in […]
Pages June 3, 2014
UNITE HERE members stay healthy with comprehensive, affordable health care. With UNITE HERE, tens of thousands of families have access to high quality care that our members—cooks, room cleaners, and busboys—can actually afford. In cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, members pay $50 or less in monthly premiums to cover their entire families. In Atlantic […]
Press Releases January 2, 2012
Hundreds of Aramark’s Citizens Bank Park employees, and their supporters from New York to Baltimore, rallied in support of better wages and access to healthcare benefits following the 2012 NHL Winter Classic. Since voting down the company’s latest contract offer in September, beer vendors, concessions stand attendants, and the other stadium employees covered have been […]
Press Releases April 28, 2015
[Washington, DC] Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (D-CT) is introducing the “Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act,” a bill designed to protect workers from getting hit with an onerous 40% tax on their health benefits. The move, backed by 40 House Democrats, is being applauded by UNITE HERE, a union representing 270,000 hospitality workers. The […]
Press Releases November 20, 2015
Las Vegas, NV – The Culinary Union was chartered on November 1, 1935 and this year marks the 80th anniversary of the organization that has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Nevada hospitality workers and their families with union wages and benefits. In eight decades, the Culinary Union has become an essential economic […]