Posts May 12, 2011
UNITE HERE Local 483 hotel members and community allies rallied in support of the Asilomar Conference Grounds workers, Thursday, May 12. Two issues are currently at the forefront of these hotel workers’ concerns are onerous workloads an a 5-year wage freeze.: 1. Onerous workloads. Since ARAMARK took over operations in October 2009, the Asilomar housekeeper […]
Posts June 18, 2011
On Friday, June 17th, workers at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki officially launched a boycott of their hotel, with a rally followed by a press conference. This Hyatt will now join 17 other Hyatts across the country under boycott. Last week, on June 8, in an overwhelming show of solidarity, union hotel workers at the Hyatt […]
Posts June 24, 2011
On June 23, in Oakland, California, Local 2850 escalated the fight at Castlewood County Club, where the workers have been locked out since February 25, 2010. In the first civil disobedience to take place at the Club, nearly 100 demonstrators blocked the roadway leading to an entrance of the golf course for several hours during […]
Posts September 26, 2011
Workers at the East Bay’s only Indian casino have asked the San Pablo council to help them in their quest for better wages, benefits and working conditions. Casino San Pablo Workers, Contra Costa Labor Council, UNITE HERE Local 2850, SEIU-USWW, Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), San Pablo Residents, and many others stood […]
Posts October 18, 2011
UNITE HERE’s role in the sustainable food movement is about to take an enormous step forward, as UNITE HERE members who cook in campus dining halls and public schools are teaming up with students on their campuses to participate in the first national Food Day on October 24. Food Day events around the country will […]
Posts November 18, 2011
Hotel Management Posts Sexually Suggestive Photos of Employees and Fires Housekeeper Who Objects Martha Reyes came to work and found men laughing at pictures of Hyatt housekeepers whose faces were pasted atop bikini-clad cartoon images on the company’s bulletin board. Humiliated, Martha Reyes tore down the photographs of her and her sister Lorena. Both sisters […]
Posts February 24, 2012
Oakland, CA – Castlewood Country Club workers and UNITE HERE Local 2850 will join hundreds of religious leaders, students, union members, and participants in Occupy Oakland and Occupy San Francisco for a mass march through Pleasanton to Castlewood Country Club on Saturday, February 25th, at 9:30 am in protest of their two-year lockout of workers. […]
Posts April 26, 2012
With an injury rate nearly double the national rate in 2010 according to a union analysis, current and former Pomona College dining hall employees filed a complaint with Cal/OSHA on April 26. This complaint comes as a result of debilitating injuries sustained in food service work at the college. As labor and work safety organizations […]
Posts July 10, 2012
SEATTLE – Amidst news of the impending sale of the Hilton Seattle Hotel, the R.C. Hedreen Company – the hotel’s current owner – agreed to the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement yesterday with UNITE HERE Local 8, the union representing nearly 100 workers at the hotel. This agreement includes a guarantee that workers […]
Posts August 20, 2012
In an August 17 decision, Administrative Law Judge Clifford Anderson of the National Labor Relations Board found that Castlewood Country Club has maintained an illegal lockout since August 10, 2010. He recommended that the NLRB order Castlewood to reinstate the locked-out workers and pay them two years of back wages and benefits. "We’ve been saying […]
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