Posts October 9, 2018
CLICK TO WATCH Thousands of hotel workers in eight U.S. cities say they’ll remain off the job until a new contract is reached with Marriott International. About 7,700 employees of the world’s largest hotel chain are now walking picket lines in Boston, Detroit, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, as well as two […]
Posts October 7, 2018
Read the full story by Annalise Frank in Crain’s Detroit Business Workers at the Westin Book Cadillac hotel in downtown Detroit went on strike early Sunday morning. Housekeepers, servers, door attendants and cooks represented by Detroit-based hospitality union Unite Here Local 24 walked off the job and joined a picket line, with higher wages among […]
Posts September 11, 2018
On the 17th 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 […]
Posts September 5, 2018
Unions in nine cities will be holding strike authorization votes that could lead to work stoppages at the world’s largest hotel chain Read the whole story at Huffington Post. One of the Hawaii workers who plans to vote in favor of striking is Jason Maxwell, a 45-year-old bartender at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & […]
Posts August 23, 2018
Read the whole article by Josh Eidelson in Bloomberg Businessweek by clicking here. In her ruling Wednesday, NMB General Counsel Mary Johnson wrote that after interviewing employees, the agency’s investigators had determined that “there is no evidence that employees did not understand that Unite Here was a union and was not a representative of United. Almost […]
Posts August 23, 2018
Airport workers are going to ask you for a raise. No, they don’t work for you, but Denver voters can force their employers out at the airport to pay them a higher minimum wage – $15 by 2021.
Posts August 12, 2018
On August 15, hundreds of UNITE HERE members will join thousands of other union members and faith and community allies for a demonstration to call for an end to family separation and detention. Liberty & Justice For All: Labor United to Free Our Children will be the largest labor-led demonstration on immigration in the nation. […]
Posts June 19, 2018
Inspired by the 1968 Memphis movement and the Poor People’s campaign, a broad coalition of labor, civil rights, immigrant rights, and faith-based organizations has organized a new Poor People’s campaign and issued “A Call for Moral Revival.” Read more from BeyondChron.org on the role of union workers in the original Poor People’s Campaign and its […]
Posts June 12, 2018
“The union’s success is a ray of hope for unions elsewhere, as state and federal policies become more hostile to organized labor. Previously the domain of the South and West, right-to-work laws have spread rapidly in recent years, even to Midwestern union bastions like Michigan and Wisconsin. They are now on the books in 28 states. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is […]
Posts April 9, 2018
via Huffington Post–Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, to march with the city’s striking black sanitation workers. Wages were bad, and conditions were so unsafe that workers were seriously injured or even killed while using the trash compactors of their trucks. The city of Memphis, their employer, refused […]
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