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 August 13, 2019
FT. WORTH—Dozens of UNITE HERE-represented airline catering workers and their supporters were arrested on Tuesday morning after participating in a nonviolent act of civil disobedience outside of American Airlines’ new corporate headquarters. A morning rally and march with hundreds of demonstrators marked a major escalation in catering workers’ ongoing campaign to end poverty wages and […]
Press Releases August 12, 2019
Event will be preceded by rally and march and followed by three days of informational picketing at DFW Airport and public events around greater Dallas-Ft. Worth aimed at drawing widespread attention to catering workers’ campaign to end poverty wages, unaffordable health care in kitchens serving American WHO: Hundreds of UNITE HERE-represented airline catering workers and […]
Press Releases July 3, 2019
NATIONWIDE—Hundreds of airline catering workers and their allies in over 30 cities—including New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Miami, Dallas, and San Francisco—participated today in informational pickets just as the busy July 4 travel season kicked off. The pickets come just under two weeks after thousands of airline catering workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, […]
Posts March 9, 2016
After over a year of bargaining, Sky Chefs airline catering workers won an important new national contract! Under the terms of the new agreement, which was ratified by a 76% margin, the over 9,000 UNITE HERE Sky Chefs workers will receive: At least $1.10 per hour in raises through 2018; At least one additional paid […]
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 December 20, 2018
MIAMI – This month, airline catering workers in over 20 cities are participating in a variety of demonstrations to send a message to the airline industry that they are fed up with poverty wages and premiums that make healthcare inaccessible. The series of actions marks the official relaunch of the “FED UP” movement that began […]
Press Releases January 29, 2015
Uninsured food service workers held protests today in cities that are home to the “Big Three” U.S. airline companies—United, American Airlines and Delta. Employees in the airline catering industry say their healthcare is too expensive, leaving many uninsured or underinsured. For just a “nickel a ticket,” they say the airlines could fix the problem.
Press Releases November 20, 2019
PRESS ADVISORY for November 26, 2019 WHO: Thousands of airline catering workers and their supporters in 17 U.S. cities WHAT: Collectively, the largest demonstration of workers at U.S. airports in years featuring pickets, marches, sit-ins, and die-ins calling on American Airlines to take urgent and necessary steps to ensure that workers who cater its flights […]
Press Releases November 26, 2019
NATIONWIDE—Hundreds were arrested and thousands more demonstrated at airports nationwide on one of the busiest travel days in the U.S.—the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. The protests were led by airline catering workers who provide inflight food and beverage services for all major U.S. airlines, including American Airlines. Through marches, pickets, sit-downs and die-ins, workers called on […]