Press Releases June 14, 2010
Chicago, IL-Today, strikers at the Congress Hotel, joined by hundreds of community supporters and members of UNITE HERE Local 1, rallied outside the Congress Hotel to commemorate the 7th Anniversary of the Congress Hotel Strike, now the longest hotel strike in American history. The event, led by keynote speaker Congressman Luis Gutierrez, gave recognition to […]
Press Releases July 29, 2010
(Chicago, IL) – Today, UNITE HERE Local 1 members working at four area Hyatts—the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Park Hyatt, Hyatt McCormick Place, and Hyatt O’Hare—voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, with 92% voting in favor of striking. The vote represents a major escalation of a citywide labor dispute among Chicago’s downtown hotels and with Hyatt […]
Press Releases August 19, 2010
(Chicago, IL) – Today, Hilton Hotels workers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike at 4 area properties – the Chicago Hilton, Hilton O’Hare, the Palmer House Hilton, and the Drake, according to UNITE HERE Local 1 and Local 450. With 96% of union members voting in favor of a strike, the vote authorizes […]
Press Releases October 16, 2010
(Chicago, IL) – Citywide union hotel contracts expired more than a year ago, and today hotel workers at the Chicago Hilton are walking off the job, launching a three-day strike protesting Hilton’s efforts to lock workers into the recession. Outraged that Hilton finagled $180 million in bailout funds but is still squeezing workers, hundreds are […]
Press Releases November 4, 2010
Seventy political and religious leaders of many faiths joined hotel workers in Chicago today for an Interfaith Prayer Service in front of the Hyatt Regency Chicago, the site of numerous worker demonstrations in recent months. Together, they are seeking to "part the red sea" of the recession, and move toward a path of shared recovery […]
Press Releases November 17, 2010
Chicago – After months of organizing, over 200 campus dining workers at Loyola University Chicago have won union representation, choosing to join UNITE HERE Local 1. "I feel blessed. A union means a better life for me and my family," said Janet Irving, a Loyola campus dining worker and member of the worker organizing committee […]
Press Releases January 24, 2012
Chicago, IL — Today, lunchroom workers who are members of UNITE HERE Local 1 are based on surveys from hundreds of lunchroom workers. The report, entitled "Feeding Chicago’s Kids the Food They Deserve: The Lunch Ladies’ View of Meals at Chicago Public Schools," reveals the inside story of the struggle our schools face in improving […]
Press Releases December 4, 2012
Current food service provider might terminate contract with CSU due to University financial dispute (CHICAGO) – Today, a top official of Thompson Hospitality, a food service contractor, announced to Chicago State University dining hall workers that it might stop providing food service this month at the University due to a financial dispute with CSU. The […]
Press Releases December 6, 2012
Chicago State University cafeteria workers went on strike today, December 6, in response to food service contractor Thompson Hospitality’s cancellation of negotiations. On Monday, December 3, cafeteria workers, represented by UNITE HERE Local 1, filed unfair labor practice charges against Thompson Hospitality for repeatedly cancelling negotiations and failing to bargain in good faith. It is […]
Press Releases December 14, 2015
CHICAGO, IL – After organizing since November 2014, workers in the housekeeping department at the Hotel Monaco voted in favor of joining UNITE HERE Local 1. With this vote, the Monaco becomes the third unionized hotel operated by Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group in Chicago, after the Hotel Palomar and Hotel Allegro, also represented by Local […]