Posts March 5, 2010
Today, Robert Kidder, a former executive of Fall River Shirt Company, officially opened a new shirt manufacturing company, New England Shirt. The workers at New England Shirt are members of the New England Joint Board of UNITE HERE and have already negotiated a union contract with the company. At today’s opening, UNITE HERE members proudly […]
Posts April 22, 2020
Sorry, Mr. President, we are not taking the bait! Your latest executive order is a phony deal. You need to stop using immigrants as a foil yet again to distract the American people. This is exactly what you are doing with his latest executive order halting immigration to America for 60 days. Your own Immigration […]
Press Releases June 11, 2024
WASHINGTON DC – Enrique Fernandez, UNITE HERE Vice President for Immigration, Civil Rights, and Diversity, released the following statement: “Last Tuesday, the Biden Administration announced an executive order placing severe restrictions on the refugee/asylum system. We are disappointed with this measure, which will not appease the administration’s far-right critics, but will make things harder for […]
Press Releases August 31, 2009
HONOLULU – A week after more than 1,000 Local 5 health care workers and their supporters rallied in front of Kaiser’s Honolulu and Wailuku Clinics, the hotel and healthcare workers’ union UNITE HERE Local 5 has launched a website, www.Local5Deliver.org, as part of their 2009 statewide contract campaign. Local 5’s new website features an online […]
Press Releases November 8, 2017
Richmond, VA – Despite the Pharmaceutical industry working with the Republican Attorney General’s Association, or RAGA, to buy the Virginia Attorney General’s seat, the will of voters has again thwarted Big Pharma with John Adams’ defeat. “Big Pharma poured $1,789,755 in to RAGA this cycle, and even after they spent a quarter million of that […]
Press Releases June 20, 2018
New York, NY – Today, President D. Taylor and the Executive Committee of UNITE HERE International Union unanimously adopted the following statement: Just when we think the Trump administration cannot stoop any lower in its ongoing determination to demonize immigrants, it came to light that the administration has been jailing children as leverage for the […]
Press Releases August 30, 2007
(New York, NY) — A new study released on Monday, August 27, 2007 at PREMUS – the Sixth International Scientific Conference on Prevention of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders, held in Boston, highlights the differences in injury rates by gender, race/ethnicity or both. Dr. Susan Buchanan, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, presented the […]
Press Releases July 18, 2023
Vancouver, BC – Downtown hospitality workers at the Hyatt Regency, Westin Bayshore and Pinnacle Harbourfront hotels have voted in favour of strike action, concerned about job security and the cost of living in Vancouver. The workers – including room attendants, front desk agents, kitchen staff, servers, and bellman represented by UNITE HERE Local 40 – […]