Press Releases August 10, 2006
WHAT: Press Conference WHEN: Thursday, Aug. 17 at 1:30 WHERE: Johnson Square, Savannah WHO: Speakers will include Hugo Boss employees from Ohio and Georgia, Congressional candidate Reverend Jim Nelson, State Representative Al Williams, and other supporters. Midway, Georgia – On August 17, a delegation of Hugo Boss employees who work in the company’s Cleveland plant […]
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. […]
Posts May 1, 2015
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon and which cuts without wounding and enables the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posts March 18, 2005
New York, NY–On February 1, 2005, Cablevision cut off union health insurance for over two hundred Madison Square Garden workers and their families. This is part of Cablevision’s attempt to force these workers to agree to changes in their contract that would cut work opportunities, health insurance and pension benefits for many employees. Many workers […]
Posts May 13, 2005
Los Angeles–In what may prove to be the "tipping point" in L.A.’s year-old hotel labor dispute, the famed 570-room Beverly Hilton Hotel has reached an agreement with UNITE HERE Local 11 that improves workers’ wages, maintains free family health benefits, and expires in 2006. Nearly half the LA area hotels with contracts that expired in […]
Posts May 25, 2005
Kahuku, HI -" Turtle Bay workers walked off the job early Saturday morning to protest abusive working conditions for housekeepers and other health and safety issues for laundry and Palm Terrace restaurant workers. At around 3AM, the union delivered a letter to the manager on duty stating that workers were going on strike until 11:59 […]
Posts June 9, 2005
Hundreds of workers at the Hyatt West Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles went on strike today in protest of the hotel’s refusal to return the thousands of dollars in healthcare co-pays the hotel collected from the workers over a period of eight months after their contract expired in April. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) […]
Posts September 22, 2005
San Francisco, CA– The city’s Argent Hotel has expressed its willingness to support a short-term contract expiring in 2006. The Argent now joins the Palace and the Westin St. Francis in demonstrating interest in signing a contract ending in 2006. UNITE HERE Local 2 has lifted the boycott of the Westin St. Francis. However, the […]
Posts September 29, 2005
The week of September 5th, Local 5 members at Hilton, Starwood, Marriott and Hyatt hotels in Hawaii used life-size body charts and "OUCH" stickers to demonstrate where their bodies hurt from the hard work they do every day. In cafeterias and locker rooms, it was revealed that housekeepers have many aching body parts, especially their […]
Posts September 29, 2005
As a result of escalating workload and duties, room attendants at the Fairmont Royal York report being unable to take their breaks. On Thursday September 22, all room attendants took their breaks at the same time and room attendants held rallies in the staff cafeteria to educate other departments about the unbearable workload. As a […]
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