Washington Post: “If we don’t work we don’t get paid”
From the Washington Post. Federal contract workers like Pablo Lazaro worry about saving money and paying bills as the government shutdown continues.
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Posts January 3, 2019
The American Prospect: The Return of the Strike
D. Taylor, the president of Unite Here, the union that conducted the Chicago and Marriott hotel strikes, voices dismay that walkouts have grown so rare. “I thought it was important to restore the strike to the arsenal of the labor movement,” Taylor says. “If you’re in a fight against powerful forces, why are you taking […]
Posts November 11, 2018
New York Times: Hotels See Panic Buttons as a #MeToo Solution for Workers. Guest Bans? Not So Fast.
UNITE HERE members across the United States describe their life changing campaigning to win sexual harassment protections through a combination of legislation and organizing. Click to read more Before the hotel industry embraced panic buttons, cities including Chicago and Miami Beach, Fla., mandated them through ordinances passed by their city councils. Collective bargaining agreements have also […]
Posts October 29, 2018
Statement by D. Taylor, UNITE HERE President, on Massacre at Synagogue in Pittsburgh
In a most horrific act, anti-Semitism showed its face at the Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We grieve with the families and the Jewish community in Pittsburgh and across the United States in the face of this murderous act. Our hearts are broken. Today we grieve but we are also called […]
Posts October 9, 2018
CBS News: Marriott hotel strike leads to mass employee walkouts
CLICK TO WATCH Thousands of hotel workers in eight U.S. cities say they’ll remain off the job until a new contract is reached with Marriott International. About 7,700 employees of the world’s largest hotel chain are now walking picket lines in Boston, Detroit, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, as well as two […]
Posts October 7, 2018
Crain’s Detroit Business: Westin Book Cadillac Detroit hotel workers go on strike
Read the full story by Annalise Frank in Crain’s Detroit Business Workers at the Westin Book Cadillac hotel in downtown Detroit went on strike early Sunday morning. Housekeepers, servers, door attendants and cooks represented by Detroit-based hospitality union Unite Here Local 24 walked off the job and joined a picket line, with higher wages among […]
Posts September 11, 2018
UNITE HERE Remembers and Honors those Lost on September 11
On the 17th anniversary of September 11, 2001, UNITE HERE remembers all those who lost their lives on that tragic day. We hold especially close the memory of our 43 sisters and brothers from UNITE HERE Local 100 who died while working at Windows on the World, a restaurant located at the top of the […]
Posts September 5, 2018
Huffington Post: Thousands Of Marriott Workers To Vote On Multi-City Strike
Unions in nine cities will be holding strike authorization votes that could lead to work stoppages at the world’s largest hotel chain Read the whole story at Huffington Post. One of the Hawaii workers who plans to vote in favor of striking is Jason Maxwell, a 45-year-old bartender at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & […]
Posts August 23, 2018
Bloomberg Businessweek: United Airlines Loses Challenge to Union Drive
Read the whole article by Josh Eidelson in Bloomberg Businessweek by clicking here. In her ruling Wednesday, NMB General Counsel Mary Johnson wrote that after interviewing employees, the agency’s investigators had determined that “there is no evidence that employees did not understand that Unite Here was a union and was not a representative of United. Almost […]
Posts August 23, 2018
DIA workers rallying for higher pay
Airport workers are going to ask you for a raise. No, they don’t work for you, but Denver voters can force their employers out at the airport to pay them a higher minimum wage – $15 by 2021.