Posts April 30, 2025
UNITE HERE Connecticut is calling on elected officials to support Senate Bill 8 and House Bill 6904, which would make striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits after two weeks on strike. These bills would encourage all employers to negotiate contracts in good faith, and allow workers to defend their rights as union members. Billionaires shouldn’t […]
Posts April 30, 2025
In a major upset, Betty Martinez Franco, a former hotel housekeeper, won a special election for Irvine City Council District 5. Betty ran on an progressive, pro-worker platform that celebrated her personal history as a former Disneyland housekeeper. UNITE HERE Local 11 members called, texted, and knocked doors to support her campaign. Her victory points […]
Posts April 30, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an apprentice with Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation (SMART) Workers Local 100, was deported in late March due to “an administrative error,” even though he has protected status. Despite a federal judge and Supreme Court order, he still hasn’t come home to his family. Tens of thousands of UNITE HERE members […]
Posts April 30, 2025
At a Hospitality Workers Summit on April 23, Local 23 members, UNITE HERE Secretary-Treasurer Nia Winston, and members of the Houston City Council met to discuss the need for a $23 wage in Houston, which welcomed a record 54 million visitors in 2024. Instead of reaping the benefits of this travel boom, workers at the […]
Posts April 7, 2025
On March 25, we commemorated the 146 lives lost in the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. The fire was one of the worst workplace disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It took the lives of 146 young immigrant garment workers, many of them members of one of our predecessor unions, the International Ladies’ Garment […]
Posts April 7, 2025
Throughout history, women have organized for equality by challenging discrimination and pushing for workers’ rights. Women workers have led the labor movement as we fight for fair wages, equal rights, and better working conditions. During Women’s History Month, and every day of the year, UNITE HERE is committed to investing in women leaders in the […]
Posts April 7, 2025
For 12 days last month, Compass workers at Northwestern University made history with the first-ever strike of food service and hospitality workers at Northwestern! The UNITE HERE Local 1 members are fighting for a fair contract with family-sustaining wages and a pension that ensures they can retire with dignity. As the campus began its spring […]
Posts April 7, 2025
Hotel and Gaming Trades members at two NYC-area workplaces have won new union contracts! At the Lotos Club in Manhattan, workers (pictured above) unanimously ratified a new contract that provides seven years of job security, guaranteed wage increases, and quality family health coverage. “Together, we secured the highest annual wage increase in the history of […]
Posts March 19, 2025
Overcoming the deep and historic inequality in New Haven, where life expectancy varies by 10 years between neighborhoods, requires that residents from all neighborhoods have access to good union jobs. That’s where a coalition of UNITE HERE locals and community and political ally organization New Haven Rising comes in. Together, they have long focused on […]
Posts March 19, 2025
On February 21st, workers at St. Anselm voted to join Local 25. Instead of recognizing the result of the election, STARR Restaurants filed objections, claiming that the NLRB lacks authority to certify union elections when there is not a quorum of NLRB members. There is not a quorum because Trump fired a member of the […]
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