Posts April 30, 2025
10,000 UNITE HERE members working at airline caterer LSG Sky Chefs are ramping up the fight for their new contract! In mid-April, just days before a national mediation session with the company, workers from coast to coast took action to tell the company that it’s time for them to get serious. Sky Chefs workers deserve […]
Posts March 19, 2025
On March 4, UNITE HERE Local 217 announced that it had won a new contract for its members working in New Haven Public Schools. Workers had been fighting for good raises that would allow them to pay bills and provide for their families. The victory came after nine months of negotiations—including a chilly picket line […]
Posts September 1, 2015
Gate Gourmet workers (members of Local 1) rally in Chicago in January 2015. On Thursday, August 27th votes were tallied and Gate Gourmet airline catering members approved a new union contract covering 7907 workers across the country! The contract was ratified by a 92% margin and will be expire December 31, 2017. 3499 workers are […]
Posts July 21, 2015
Posts May 30, 2015
In late May, workers at Baltimore’s BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport visited Frankfurt, Germany. They have asked Fraport AG — parent company of BWI’s concessions developer AirMall USA — to address the poor quality of jobs and working conditions the airport’s food and retail concessions program. Frustrated with lack of action since Fraport acquired AirMall nearly […]
Posts May 27, 2015
As the City of Los Angeles moves to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, it is also cracking down on one company that it says has failed to comply with an existing city living wage. In a letter to Flying Food Group CEO David Cotton, the City advises that 271 employees at the company’s Imperial […]
Posts September 9, 2014
Nearly one in four airline catering workers — 24% — say unauthorized people could get into their kitchens and trucks, and the same percentage warned that someone could place contraband on a food cart, according to a survey obtained by USA TODAY. Unite Here, a union representing 12,000 airline catering workers nationwide, surveyed 400 of […]
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