Posts August 12, 2018
On August 15, hundreds of UNITE HERE members will join thousands of other union members and faith and community allies for a demonstration to call for an end to family separation and detention. Liberty & Justice For All: Labor United to Free Our Children will be the largest labor-led demonstration on immigration in the nation. […]
Posts June 19, 2018
Inspired by the 1968 Memphis movement and the Poor People’s campaign, a broad coalition of labor, civil rights, immigrant rights, and faith-based organizations has organized a new Poor People’s campaign and issued “A Call for Moral Revival.” Read more from BeyondChron.org on the role of union workers in the original Poor People’s Campaign and its […]
Posts June 12, 2018
“The union’s success is a ray of hope for unions elsewhere, as state and federal policies become more hostile to organized labor. Previously the domain of the South and West, right-to-work laws have spread rapidly in recent years, even to Midwestern union bastions like Michigan and Wisconsin. They are now on the books in 28 states. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is […]
Posts April 9, 2018
via Huffington Post–Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, to march with the city’s striking black sanitation workers. Wages were bad, and conditions were so unsafe that workers were seriously injured or even killed while using the trash compactors of their trucks. The city of Memphis, their employer, refused […]
Posts March 22, 2018
March 25, 2018, is the 107th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York’s Greenwich Village. This tragedy took the lives of 146 young immigrant garment workers and galvanized a reform movement to raise standards for workers. At UNITE HERE’s headquarters in New York, staff and members will gather to remember the victims […]
Posts January 30, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tonight, Congresswoman Jacky Rosen (NV-03) will attend the State of the Union with Nevada Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipient and Culinary Workers Union Local 226 member Nery Martínez. Mr. Martínez fled to the U.S. from El Salvador in the 1990s and lives in Las Vegas. Mr. Martinez works as a bar apprentice […]
Posts January 23, 2018
“Today American immigrants saw once again that both major political parties continue to fail them and their families. The Trump administration precipitated the current crisis for both TPS and DACA by ending protections without a plan to pass legislation with his own party, which controls both houses of Congress. Rather than holding the line and forcing a resolution to this humanitarian crisis […]
Posts December 13, 2017
SUNNYVALE—This week, 118 food service workers at Yahoo won union representation at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. The food service workers, who are employed by Yahoo’s contractor, Bon Appetit, are calling for respect and dignity, affordable health care, and increased wages to compete with increasing rents in the Bay Area. “I grew up and live […]
Posts December 6, 2017
“Juana Melara, who has worked as a hotel housekeeper for decades, says she and her fellow housekeepers didn’t complain about guests who exposed themselves or masturbated in front of them for fear of losing the paycheck they needed to support their families. Melara recalls “feeling the pressure of someone’s eyes” on her as she cleaned […]
Posts November 30, 2017
The Trump administration has determined that the temporary protection status issued to Haitians living in the United States after an earthquake in 2010, is no longer needed. Almost 60,000 Haitians living in the US now have until July 22, 2019 to go home, or change their visa status. Haitian activists say that conditions in Haiti […]
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