Industries May 17, 2014
Before the famous Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters first organized, another group of African-American railroad workers helped them get their start. That union lives on today in UNITE HERE, representing dining car workers on Amtrak trains throughout the United States.
Posts July 10, 2007
Today teen apparel retailer American Eagle Outfitters launched its back-to-school clothing line at stores across North America. At the same time, UNITE HERE and student groups announced they would step up the “American Vulture” campaign, which calls for a boycott of the company until it enforces its Code of Conduct and prevents worker intimidation at […]
Posts June 20, 2012
Atlantic City, NJ-UNITE HERE Local 54 has filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board in Philadelphia over Tropicana’s illegal suspension of 21 workers who engaged a peaceful first amendment protest which included a civil disobedience action. In a letter to the NLRB accompanying the charges, Local 54’s attorney wrote, "Tropicana, however, chose to use […]
Posts July 3, 2012
Last Wednesday, the members of UNITE HERE! Local 35 and Local 34 unanimously ratified four-year contracts with Yale University. The contracts provide opportunities for job advancement, quality, affordable healthcare, and substantial wage increases for approximately 1200 service and maintenance employees in Local 35, and 3500 clerical and technical employees in Local 34. The contracts ensure […]
Posts October 19, 2005
Chicago, IL–HMS Host workers at one of the nation’s largest and busiest airports, O’Hare International Airport, will picket this week to inform the public about the poverty wages and poor benefits they receive as employees. "I’m trying to save enough money to bring my four-year-old son from Ecuador to live with me," says Ambar Vera, […]
Press Releases November 16, 2021
Workers at HelloFresh have alerted government agencies and are calling for investigations of higher-than-average injury rates at America’s #1 meal kit company’s Richmond CA and Aurora CO factories. As online food ordering exploded during COVID, HelloFresh doubled its U.S. revenues in 2020 – but the workers who prep, assemble, and ship these meal kits say […]
Press Releases March 12, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Change to Win released a print ad today demanding the United States Congress reject the Colombia Free Trade Agreement deal that the Bush administration is threatening to send to Congress in the coming weeks despite strong opposition. “American workers are sick of job-destroying trade deals that benefit multinational corporations,” said Bruce Raynor, […]
Press Releases February 23, 2017
[Washington, DC]—UNITE HERE, an organization representing 270,000 working people across North America, is launching a national week of action today with delegations of voters to Congressional district offices across the country. Actions are accompanied by a major ad campaign targeting GOP members of Congress who refuse to fix the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In particular, […]
Press Releases September 28, 2007
Philadelphia – UNITE HERE, the union representing cafeteria workers in the Philadelphia School District, and SEIU, the union representing janitorial workers in the Philadelphia School District, released an analysis today illustrating Aramark’s mismanagement of the Philadelphia Schools’ full-service school cafeterias and called for an independent audit of the circumstances surrounding the monitoring of the contract. […]
Press Releases June 30, 2011
Rabbis and other faith leaders have released a report today, pledging to treat a number of Hyatt Hotels as "not kosher." Open the Gates of Justice: A Clergy Report on Working Conditions at Hyatt Hotels describes a range of practice by Hyatt that clergy found "contrary to the religious traditions we uphold." This report is […]
UNITE HERE represents workers throughout the United States and Canada.