Press Releases August 31, 2009
HONOLULU – A week after more than 1,000 Local 5 health care workers and their supporters rallied in front of Kaiser’s Honolulu and Wailuku Clinics, the hotel and healthcare workers’ union UNITE HERE Local 5 has launched a website, www.Local5Deliver.org, as part of their 2009 statewide contract campaign. Local 5’s new website features an online […]
Press Releases September 29, 2023
Detroit—This evening at 09:40pm, the Detroit Casino Council announced that members from MGM Grand Detroit, Hollywood at Greektown and MotorCity casinos — voted 99% “yes” to authorize a strike, if deemed necessary by the worker negotiating committee. Workers flooded the Teamsters Hall today between 7:00am-9:00pm to cast their ballots with the results revealed shortly after the polls closed […]
Press Releases November 8, 2017
Richmond, VA – Despite the Pharmaceutical industry working with the Republican Attorney General’s Association, or RAGA, to buy the Virginia Attorney General’s seat, the will of voters has again thwarted Big Pharma with John Adams’ defeat. “Big Pharma poured $1,789,755 in to RAGA this cycle, and even after they spent a quarter million of that […]
Press Releases May 14, 2010
San Francisco, CA– California’s largest hospitality union, UNITEHERE, has launched a new campaign designed to draw attention to the safety and ethics records of the popular tour operator, Tauck Tours. This campaign is part of UNITE HERE International’s ongoing efforts to raise awareness about consumer safety in the hospitality and tourism sectors. The tour operator, […]
Posts October 19, 2005
Volney, NY–UNITE HERE Local 701T members at Interface Solutions ratified a new contract last Friday. The new contract came almost two months after the company locked out union members when they began picketing the plant following failed contract negotiations. The local had announced that it would file a lawsuit against the company, claiming various violations […]
Press Releases October 24, 2013
This summer, Chicago Public Schools took its school food program in an exciting new direction by nearly eliminating frozen, pre-plated meals from its lunchrooms. Yet, just two weeks before launching the program at the start of the school year, CPS also announced the layoff of 200 lunchroom workers—layoffs that the workers themselves warned could jeopardize […]
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