Posts April 15, 2009
New Haven, CT–Yale University and UNITE HERE Locals 34 and 35, the two major unions representing Yale employees, have agreed on new three-year contracts more than nine months before the expiration of their current contracts. The new agreements will take effect January 2010 and cover 3,400 clerical and technical employees in Local 34 and more […]
Posts April 16, 2009
On Monday April 13th, the Radisson LAX hotel signed a union contract giving significant wage increases, free family health insurance and providing safer working conditions for the 160 hotel workers who work at the hotel. Hotel workers from the Sheraton Gateway, Four Points LAX, and Westin LAX also joined the Radisson LAX workers to celebrate […]
Posts June 3, 2009
On May 28th, hundreds of concession workers at the Meadowlands arena in New Jersey (home of the Jets and Giants) rallied against Delaware North Companies (DNC) there. Many of the people protesting on Thursday have worked at the arena for years and feel part of the family. Peggy Trigo, a 17-year worker at the arena, […]
Posts June 16, 2009
Chi Town Daily News–Hundreds of protesters marked the sixth anniversary of a strike over labor conditions at The Congress Plaza Hotel and Convention Center on Monday, stretching a picket line down a block-long stretch of South Michigan Avenue. On June 15, 2003, almost six months after their contracts expired, workers at the Congress Hotel went […]
Posts October 19, 2009
Hyatt housekeepers have launched a seven-city national tour to bring awareness to the mistreatment of women working at Hyatt Hotels and the hotel industry more broadly. The symbol of the Hope for Housekeepers tour is the Hope Quilt, which has been crafted by housekeepers from across the country. As the tour has progressed from city […]
Posts October 20, 2009
Local 11 members preserve free family health care and tuition waiver for employees’ children admitted to USC LOS ANGELES – More than 600 University of Southern California food service workers, represented by Unite Here Local 11, ratified a new contract on Friday, Oct. 16 with a significant wage increase and the preservation of free family […]
Posts November 2, 2009
After months of working with no contract and facing the prospect of losing the free family health benefits that they’d been receiving for years, the cafeteria workers at Hunter College finally won a collective bargaining agreement from AVI Foodsystems. This contract — ratified unanimously on October 27 — includes free family health benefits, a significant […]
Posts November 20, 2009
The study, based on 55,000 worker-years of observation of 2,865 injuries at 50 unionized hotel properties, is the first to analyze the difference in injury rates by both sex and race/ethnicity among hotel workers. Among its findings, the study indicates that women hotel workers were 1.5 times more likely to be injured than men, Hispanic […]
Posts December 7, 2009
In LA’s No. 1 job-generating industry, workers say hospitality industry must provide quality jobs to rebuild LA’s economy More than 600 hotel workers picketed in front of the Hyatt Andaz West Hollywood Friday evening, December 4, calling on the hotel chain to improve working standards in its hotels. The picket and rally marked the expiration […]