Posts April 30, 2012
While Seattle’s downtown hotel sector sets for widely projected growth and profitability, its workforce endures poverty wages, pain and injury from unsustainable management practices. Our Pain, Their Gain: The hidden costs of profitability in Seattle’s downtown hotels reveals how industry practices keep workers in poverty with low wages and inadequate health benefits, requiring public dollars […]
Posts September 15, 2014
In response to the unprecedented closure of three Atlantic City casinos in less than three weeks, UNITE HERE Local 54 joined state, county, and local government and community partners to run the AC Unites Here resource center September 3–10.
Posts August 21, 2015
The U.S. public has long relied on the American Heart Association’s recommendations for how to prevent heart attack and stroke. Given the AHA’s influence, we believe the organization should avoid financial ties to corporations with commercial interests in cardiovascular health. However, the AHA and its leadership accept large sums of money from individuals and corporations, including […]
Posts March 23, 2017
SILVER SPRING, Maryland – Union, immigration and religious leaders are honoring D. Taylor, president of the UNITE HERE labor union, for his commitment to immigrant workers at a reception March 23 at the Friars Club in New York. The fundraising event will benefit the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., known as CLINIC. “D Taylor represents […]
Posts December 13, 2017
SUNNYVALE—This week, 118 food service workers at Yahoo won union representation at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. The food service workers, who are employed by Yahoo’s contractor, Bon Appetit, are calling for respect and dignity, affordable health care, and increased wages to compete with increasing rents in the Bay Area. “I grew up and live […]
Posts January 20, 2020
UNITE HERE’s Culinary Union Local 226 hosted a series of seven Town Halls throughout November, December, and January in Las Vegas with Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Tom Steyer to hear more from leading 2020 Democratic contenders on where they […]
Posts April 22, 2020
Sorry, Mr. President, we are not taking the bait! Your latest executive order is a phony deal. You need to stop using immigrants as a foil yet again to distract the American people. This is exactly what you are doing with his latest executive order halting immigration to America for 60 days. Your own Immigration […]
Pages June 7, 2021
Washington Post: 4,000 Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized during the pandemic We Google food service workers are 4,000 strong with the support of 300,000 members of UNITE HERE, North America’s hospitality union. In 15 locations across two countries, we have the power to make thing better—together. Your local Your first point of contact with […]
Posts September 26, 2007
As classes resumed this month, students at more than twenty campuses across North America participated in a Week of Action to spread the word about the ongoing boycott of teen retailer American Eagle Outfitters. College students from Ottawa to Miami and San Antonio to Montreal are supporting the back-to-school boycott protesting workers’ rights abuses at […]