Posts April 7, 2025
For 12 days last month, Compass workers at Northwestern University made history with the first-ever strike of food service and hospitality workers at Northwestern! The UNITE HERE Local 1 members are fighting for a fair contract with family-sustaining wages and a pension that ensures they can retire with dignity. As the campus began its spring […]
Posts April 7, 2025
Hotel and Gaming Trades members at two NYC-area workplaces have won new union contracts! At the Lotos Club in Manhattan, workers (pictured above) unanimously ratified a new contract that provides seven years of job security, guaranteed wage increases, and quality family health coverage. “Together, we secured the highest annual wage increase in the history of […]
Posts March 19, 2025
Overcoming the deep and historic inequality in New Haven, where life expectancy varies by 10 years between neighborhoods, requires that residents from all neighborhoods have access to good union jobs. That’s where a coalition of UNITE HERE locals and community and political ally organization New Haven Rising comes in. Together, they have long focused on […]
Posts March 19, 2025
On February 21st, workers at St. Anselm voted to join Local 25. Instead of recognizing the result of the election, STARR Restaurants filed objections, claiming that the NLRB lacks authority to certify union elections when there is not a quorum of NLRB members. There is not a quorum because Trump fired a member of the […]
Posts March 19, 2025
On March 10, about 500 cooks, cashiers, baristas, dishwashers and catering workers employed by Compass Group at Northwestern University walked out on strike! Workers have been without a contract for six months. They’re calling for a new contract with family-sustaining wages and increased pension contributions. It is the first-ever strike of contracted food service and […]
Posts February 28, 2025
“Our union proudly supports the reintroduction of the Dream and Promise Act. Our country needs leadership that addresses our broken immigration system instead of blaming and scapegoating immigrant workers. Immigrant workers are the backbone of the hospitality industry, and so many live and work here thanks to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or Deferred Action for […]
Posts September 11, 2024
On the 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 March 22, 2024
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City’s’s Greenwich Village on March 25, 1911, was one of the worst workplace disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The fire took the lives of 146 young immigrant garment workers. It also galvanized a reform movement to raise standards for workers.
Posts November 6, 2023
I moved to Richmond my hometown of Farmville, Virginia when I was nineteen because there no jobs there. Growing up, I watched my parents work around the clock as they struggled to support my brother and me. I started working when I was fifteen at the McDonald’s in Farmville the second I was old enough. […]
Posts September 11, 2023
On the 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 […]
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