Posts June 10, 2015
On Thursday, June 4th HTC members voted, by an enormous majority, to approve a 7 year extension to the Industry Wide Agreement which will cover over 23,000 workers, securing an unprecedented 11 years of guaranteed wage increases and healthcare. 3,436 members voted by secret ballot in the Gertrude Lane Auditorium of the Union’s offices in […]
Posts May 1, 2015
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon and which cuts without wounding and enables the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posts April 28, 2015
Each year on April 28, unions like ours pause to observe Workers Memorial Day. We honor the hard work and sacrifice of those who have been injured, made sick or killed on the job and we reaffirm our commitment to fight for safe and healthy workplaces.
Posts April 20, 2015
We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished in Boston. The Boston Globe says, “if you’re a member of Unite Here Local 26, the union that covers more than half of the hotel workers in Boston and Cambridge, the pay and benefits are striking: Entry-level salaries at $19 per hour; family health care for $12 per week; […]
Posts April 13, 2015
Workers at the Harvard-owned DoubleTree Suites by Hilton in Allston announced Saturday that they have won a union. Workers joined UNITE HERE Local 26, Boston’s hotel workers union, ending a more than 2-year public fight and boycott. During the course of their campaign housekeepers educated the public about the pain they experienced cleaning hotel rooms. […]
Posts April 2, 2015
Last week, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which would allow businesses, governments, and even first responders to discriminate against the LGBTQ community and other minority groups on religious grounds. UNITE HERE Local 23 applauds a revised bill that was announced this morning and will be carefully monitoring policies that […]
Posts March 31, 2015
UNITE HERE’s Organizing Beyond Barriers program is now accepting applications for our 2015 summer internship program. Learn organizing skills, strategic thinking, and movement building by doing it hands on this summer. The application deadline is April 17th.
Posts March 25, 2015
March 25, 2015, is the 104th 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.
Posts February 2, 2015
UNITE HERE Local 5 members who work at Kaiser Permanente in Hawai’i began a six-day strike at 12:01 AM local time Monday.
Posts January 24, 2015
Local 5 members who work for Kaiser Permanente Hawaii voted yes by 88% to go on strike. Local 5 officially gave notice to Kaiser Permanente that workers will be going on strike for six days from Monday, February 2, 12:01am through Saturday, February 7, 12:00 midnight. Over the last few years, workers organized four SWATA’s […]
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