Posts April 30, 2012
While Seattle’s downtown hotel sector sets for widely projected growth and profitability, its workforce endures poverty wages, pain and injury from unsustainable management practices. Our Pain, Their Gain: The hidden costs of profitability in Seattle’s downtown hotels reveals how industry practices keep workers in poverty with low wages and inadequate health benefits, requiring public dollars […]
Press Releases April 30, 2012
While Seattle’s downtown hotel sector sets for widely projected growth and profitability, its workforce endures poverty wages, pain and injury from unsustainable management practices. Our Pain, Their Gain: The hidden costs of profitability in Seattle’s downtown hotels reveals how industry practices keep workers in poverty with low wages and inadequate health benefits, requiring public dollars […]
Press Releases December 10, 2013
Norwalk, CT – December 10, 2013 – HEI Hotels & Resorts and labor union UNITE HERE affirmed today the formation of a long-term partnership focused on generating mutual growth and improving industry-wide labor relations through communication. While details of the strategic relationship are not being announced, the agreement resolves all ongoing matters between the union […]
Press Releases December 11, 2014
(Burlingame, CA)—After working without a contract for more than a year — in a region suffering from some of the worst economic inequality in the country — nearly 1,000 restaurant workers at San Francisco Airport went on strike this morning, shutting down restaurants at terminals throughout the facility. Workers will be on strike for 48 […]
Press Releases November 28, 2018
Media outlets may download photos and videos of the last day of picketing and the ratification vote here, crediting UNITE HERE Local 5. (HONOLULU) – Local 5 members voted overwhelmingly today to ratify a historic contract for 2,700 workers at five Maui and Waikiki hotels. The contract includes hard-won gains: job security; reductions in subcontracting […]
Posts April 19, 2013
UNITE HERE applauds the leadership in the Senate in creating a comprehensive and bipartisan framework for immigration reform. Crucially, the bill outlines a pathway to citizenship, protections for workers rights, and provisions to reunite immigrant families. For hundreds of thousands of our immigrant members and future members in our industries, such legislation would be transformative. […]
Posts July 1, 2013
Pact provides contracts and process for workers to join union, ends global Hyatt boycott CHICAGO (July 1, 2013)—Today Hyatt Hotels Corporation and UNITE HERE, the union of hospitality workers in the U.S. and Canada, announced a national agreement that resolves longstanding disputes between the two organizations. The agreement creates a framework for the company and […]
Press Releases July 1, 2013
CHICAGO (July 1, 2013)—Today Hyatt Hotels Corporation and UNITE HERE, the union of hospitality workers in the U.S. and Canada, announced a national agreement that resolves longstanding disputes between the two organizations. The agreement creates a framework for the company and the union to work together moving forward. Both UNITE HERE and Hyatt hailed the […]
Press Releases September 23, 2016
LAS VEGAS, NV— United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently reported that 6,303 permanent residents across Nevada have applied to become U.S. citizens between January and June of this year, marking a 65 percent increase from the same time frame last year. UNITE HERE’s Culinary Union helped up to one-third of those individuals apply. Last […]