Workers Ratify New Contract With Disney World Orlando
Union members ratified a new agreement with Walt Disney World on August 1. The deal features unprecedented wage increases and freezes employees’ weekly health insurance contributions in 2015.
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Posts July 28, 2014
UNITE HERE, Maryland NAACP call for action on racial and wage inequality at BWI Airport
A report released today by UNITE HERE reveals racial inequality in job classification among surveyed workers in the concessions program at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, raising further questions about the true impact of the airport’s concessions program on economic progress in Baltimore and the surrounding region.
Posts July 24, 2014
Sonoma County Casino Workers Join UNITE HERE
Workers at the Graton Resort & Casino in Sonoma County, California are now members of UNITE HERE, following an organizing drive to raise standards for workers in the region’s lucrative tourism industry. The vote by 600 janitors, waiters, cooks, and gaming workers was run under an agreement between UNITE HERE and the Graton Federated Tribes, […]
Posts July 17, 2014
Big Win For New England Textile Workers
UNITE HERE members manufacture made-in-the-USA products with the dignity and respect of their union contract.
Posts July 14, 2014
Good Jobs = Great Service in Houston
Concessions workers welcomed their special guest, Houston Mayor Annise Parker, and pledged to work together to make changes on the job and in the city.
Posts July 12, 2014
New Contract for Hawai’ian Resort Workers
On July 4, workers at The Kahala Resort ratified their new contract with a 99% yes vote. They are the final UNITE HERE Local 5 hotel in Waikiki to ratify their contract. Now all UNITE HERE hotels in Waikiki have a contract that puts them on the same standard. Their wage increases will be effective as of […]
Posts June 24, 2014
2014 Constitutional Convention
Over 800 UNITE HERE members will convene in Boston June 25-27 for the union’s Constitutional Convention.
Posts June 12, 2014
Sodexo Workers Demand Closure of Obamacare Loophole
Against the backdrop of the U.S. Capitol building, Sodexo workers from Massachusetts, Indiana, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. are protesting a loophole in the Affordable Care Act.
Posts June 6, 2014
Graduate Employees Call on Yale for a Fair Process to Decide on Union Representation
On April 30th, nearly 500 members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO-UNITE HERE) marched through heavy rain with hundreds of allies to deliver a 220-foot-long supermajority petition to University President Peter Salovey. The petition called on Yale to maintain its leadership in positive labor relations by working with GESO to develop a fair […]
Posts June 1, 2014
Unions Conclude Contract Negotiations for 44,000 Workers in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, NV – Union negotiating committees representing workers at the Golden Gate Hotel and Casino reached a tentative agreement for a new five-year contract with the company on June 1. The latest settlements conclude the Culinary and Bartenders Unions’ year-long citywide contract negotiations for 44,000 housekeepers, cooks, food servers, cleaners, cocktail servers, and other […]