Posts December 4, 2006
San Jose, CA-"A new UNITE HERE report exposes low wages and poor working conditions for food service workers who work in cafeterias at high tech and biotech companies in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. These highly profitable companies provide lavish cafeteria services for their own staff, but subcontract the work to firms who pay […]
Posts April 2, 2007
On March 30, workers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s HMSHost ratified their first union contract. HMSHost operates food and beverage concessions (restaurants, fast food, coffee shops) at the Atlanta airport and at many other airports around the country. The agreement, covering 800 workers, is the first-ever union contract for Atlanta airport concessions workers. Highlights of […]
Posts April 23, 2007
Arizona laundry workers and their allies fanned out across three cities and two states on April 20 as part of a regional Fox Chase to seek out hiding restaurateur Sam Fox, owner of Fox Restaurant Concepts. Fox has been laying low, hiding from Milum Textile laundry workers since workers and community supporters attempted to deliver […]
Posts May 14, 2007
Hundreds of members of UNITE HERE Canada’s Ontario Council rallied outside an American Eagle Outfitters store in Toronto’s Fairview Mall on Friday to protest unfair treatment of workers at the third-party warehouse that distributes merchandise to the apparel retailer’s stores throughout Canada. On April 30, a majority of workers at National Logistics Services, located in […]
Posts March 5, 2008
Low-Wage Workers Call on Goldman to Spread the Wealth to Cafeteria Workers Amid the bustle of the financial district, hundreds of cafeteria workers employed by Aramark at many of Wall Street’s largest investment banks rallied on March 5 and demanded that Ararmark owner and client Goldman Sachs take action to lift the city’s corporate cafeteria […]
Posts July 16, 2008
Hotel Workers and LGBT community unite to fight discrimination against gays and lesbians and workers. On July 10th, UNITE HERE and LGBT leaders announced a full-scale boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego. The coalition is calling for Hyatt to take action to correct a record of discrimination against workers at the hotel. […]
Posts February 5, 2010
Disneyland Hotel Workers announced Thursday that they plan to engage in a water-only fast starting on Feb. 9, 2010. Workers say they are fasting because of concerns about health and safety at work. While more than 2,000 hotel workers have been without the protection of a contract, workload and managerial pressure has increased and staffing […]
Posts February 10, 2011
Panelists Call on Owners to Do Right by Players, Workers, and Fans Washington, D.C. American Rights at Work and the NFL Players Association convened a panel today at the National Press Club to discuss the immediate threat an NFL lockout poses to players, workers, small businesses, and communities. "The threat of a lockout is more […]
Posts February 25, 2011
Since February 25th, 2010, Castlewood has maintained a lockout of its 61 food service and janitorial workers, pressuring them to give up job security protections and pay about 40% of their wages for family health insurance. Instead of giving in, the workers have waged an extraordinary yearlong struggle to return to work and protect their […]
Posts June 10, 2011
Last month, Lakayana and Nathan, two student leaders from Madison, Wisconsin, drove over 2,000 miles to Las Vegas, Nevada, to help out with an action at Stations Casino. When they arrived in Las Vegas they teamed up with Fatima and Jonathan, two Loyola Marymount students from Los Angeles who were fresh off their organizing victory […]