After 50 days on strike at the Encore Boston, locals from across our union came together for an All-Union Rally. Harvard Dining Hall workers also voted to authorize a strike. Workers are calling on the university, which has a $68 billion dollar endowment, to pay higher wages, provide affordable healthcare and income during the summer.
Read more in the Harvard Crimson.
Locals 33, 34, and 35 are bargaining for strong contracts that raise the standard for all Yale workers. Workers and allies rallied to tell the university: it’s time to win!
Hotel workers across Chicago have been on strike for what they deserve! Who’s next?
After months of actions and bargaining, workers at Vancouver’s Pan Pacific Hotel voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. Workers are pushing for safer workloads, proper staffing and higher wages that match the standard in the city’s other union hotels.
After nearly two years of negotiations, the Local 5 members won a new contract with historic wage increases, better job security language, protections in the event of a major emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.
Workers with Marshall Retail Group picketed on the first day of the new terminal at Hollywood Burbank Airport to sound the alarm: Marshall is failing to keep the airport’s existing retail workforce.
Workers at Union Loafers, Bagel Union, and the Station in St. Louis voted 51-6 to join UNITE HERE Local 74! Read more in the Labor Tribune.
After joining the union last year, Local 23 tech food service workers in Austin won a life-changing contract that includes $6-8 raises, a pension, top-tier health coverage, job security and scheduling rights.
Culinary Union held a press conference with Attorney General Aaron Ford, Congressional representatives Dina Titus, Steven Horsford, and Susie Lee calling on Stations Casinos to move forward and negotiate a fair contract now – nearly seven years since workers first organized and after a US Supreme Court ruling in workers’ favor.
Local 49 organized residents, community allies, and other unions to demand a community benefit agreement from the city amid a development project slated to double the size of downtown Sacramento with 94% luxury housing and thousands of low-wage hospitality jobs, including hundreds of millions of dollars of city money.
