Posts March 21, 2016
March 25, 2016, is the 105th 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. To learn more about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, visit Cornell University’s Kheel Center. This incident […]
Posts March 9, 2016
After over a year of bargaining, Sky Chefs airline catering workers won an important new national contract! Under the terms of the new agreement, which was ratified by a 76% margin, the over 9,000 UNITE HERE Sky Chefs workers will receive: At least $1.10 per hour in raises through 2018; At least one additional paid […]
Posts January 25, 2016
“The black casino workers and hotel people, once they got off work, they were never allowed back into the hotels and casinos once they punched out. They couldn’t even go in there to have breakfast or have dinner at all back then. When the union first formed, my mother and my grandmother had us out […]
Posts October 30, 2015
HONOLULU — October 20, 2015 — After three years of contract bargaining, Kaiser Permanente employees represented by UNITE HERE Local 5 voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three-year collective bargaining agreement that covers 1,900 employees at 22 facilities throughout Hawaii. The agreement retains full pension coverage with no cuts to benefits, provides excellent pay increases, […]
Posts October 24, 2015
Employees of the Harvard-owned DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Boston joined Local 26 and ratified a first union contract in October. Workers first sought changes from hotel management and Harvard University, which owns the hotel, in 2013. The contract will bring up the workers up to the same standard as all unionized hotel workers in […]
Posts October 5, 2015
Hotel workers at the Holiday Inn Express North York, located in Toronto’s north-west end, went on strike October 5, 2015, as they continue to stand up for good jobs in the Jane & Finch community.
Posts September 23, 2015
After a long fight, Earlham College cafeteria workers have finally become members of UNITE HERE Local 23!
Posts September 16, 2015
Winner Honored for Achievement and Union Values Union Plus recently awarded $150,000 in scholarships to 106 students representing 36 unions, including one winner representing UNITE HERE, in the 2015 Union Plus Scholarship Program. In this 24th year of the program, more than 5,000 applications were received from union members, their spouses and their dependent children […]
Posts August 29, 2015
Parking and valet attendants picketed Colonial Parking at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in D.C.’s West End neighborhood Saturday, August 29, to demand an end to Colonial’s unfair labor practices. “This August, it has been two years since Colonial took over the parking at the Ritz-Carlton Hotels in D.C.,” said Yosef Woldhanna, a valet attendant for Colonial […]
Posts August 10, 2015
For five years, Republicans lobbed every criticism imaginable at the Affordable Care Act, while Democrats defended it against every critique. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in what is likely the final major legal challenge to healthcare reform, it’s time for leaders of both parties to put politics aside and start the real work of ensuring the law fulfills its promise.
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