Posts April 22, 2020
Sorry, Mr. President, we are not taking the bait! Your latest executive order is a phony deal. You need to stop using immigrants as a foil yet again to distract the American people. This is exactly what you are doing with his latest executive order halting immigration to America for 60 days. Your own Immigration […]
Posts March 25, 2020
March 25, 2020, is the 109th 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. Most years, UNITE HERE staff and members gather at the union headquarters in New York to […]
Posts March 21, 2020
Thank you for making your call to Congress to tell them to put workers first! Will you encourage others to do the same? (If you didn’t get through the first time, keep trying! Dial 808-201-0028.) FACEBOOK // Click to share! Sample Facebook Post: “I just called Congress to tell them that thousands of hospitality workers—not […]
Posts March 21, 2020
Thousands of workers—not just billionaire companies—need cash in their pockets RIGHT NOW. Call Congress today to tell them to put workers first. Tell them that you do NOT support any COVID-19 bailout package for the rich that does not: Keep unemployment insurance in place Extend workers’ health insurance coverage Require companies to pay emergency sick-pay […]
Posts January 20, 2020
UNITE HERE’s Culinary Union Local 226 hosted a series of seven Town Halls throughout November, December, and January in Las Vegas with Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Tom Steyer to hear more from leading 2020 Democratic contenders on where they […]
Posts November 20, 2019
UNITE HERE, which represents airline catering workers, plans demonstrations at 17 airports including Charlotte, Chicago O’Hare, Dallas, Newark, JFK and Washington National. (See list of airports at the end of this story.) The union expects the number of demonstrators at each airport to range from about 200 to as many as 1,000 at JFK. Read […]
Posts November 18, 2019
“The Trump administration’s proposed fee hikes are a brazen attempt to restrict access to citizenship, DACA, asylum, and other forms of relief to the wealthy, continuing their despicable campaign to limit immigration reform to the 1% through requirements that make wealth a prerequisite for access to the American Dream. As we head into 2020, we […]
Posts September 10, 2019
On this 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 North […]
Posts July 19, 2019
PRESS ADVISORY for July 23, 2019 Contact: Meghan Cohorst, 239-503-1533, mcohorst@unitehere.org WHO: UNITE HERE Airline catering workers and political, labor and community supporters from DC and elsewhere, including: Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT), Sen. Sherrod Brown (OH), Sen. Jacky Rosen (NV) Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT), Rep. […]
Posts June 26, 2019
It’s been 5 years of hope, heartbreak, and hard-won victories for our union. We kept our promise to change 50,000 lives. We are now 300,000 strong. #unitehere
UNITE HERE represents workers throughout the United States and Canada.