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 April 30, 2025
In 2024, Boston’s Fenway Park—home of the Red Sox—raked in $574 million. Despite this, concessions workers working there for Aramark make less than $20 per hour. UNITE HERE Local 26 members at Fenway Park and MGM Music Hall at Fenway are fighting for a fair contract with fair wages, respect, and an end to automation! […]
Posts April 7, 2025
UNITE HERE Local 274 announced on Tuesday that it had reached a tentative agreement with Aramark that will cover the company’s operations at all three Philadelphia stadiums! This would, for the first time, provide healthcare benefits for year-round work and family sustaining wage increases for workers. Last year, workers at all three Philly stadiums—Wells Fargo […]
Posts March 19, 2025
On March 10, about 500 cooks, cashiers, baristas, dishwashers and catering workers employed by Compass Group at Northwestern University walked out on strike! Workers have been without a contract for six months. They’re calling for a new contract with family-sustaining wages and increased pension contributions. It is the first-ever strike of contracted food service and […]
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 August 21, 2015
The U.S. public has long relied on the American Heart Association’s recommendations for how to prevent heart attack and stroke. Given the AHA’s influence, we believe the organization should avoid financial ties to corporations with commercial interests in cardiovascular health. However, the AHA and its leadership accept large sums of money from individuals and corporations, including […]
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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