Press Releases October 29, 2004
Honolulu, October 29 – Shortly after 3 am this morning, a group of locked out hotel workers from the Sheraton Palace hotel in San Francisco began picketing the employee entrance of the Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian hotels. Currently 4,000 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, have been locked-out by 14 hotels in […]
Press Releases September 11, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, September 11, 2008—Cintas Corporation must pay more than $1.65 million in back wages, interest and penalties for violating the city of Hayward’s Living Wage Ordinance after the California Supreme Court rejected the company’s appeal yesterday. The Court’s decision allows more than 200 Northern California laundry workers to enforce a landmark judgment by the […]
Press Releases October 29, 2009
Chicago, Ill. — Yesterday, workers at five area hotels, including the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Westin Michigan Avenue, W Lakeshore, W Chicago-City Center, and Tremont Hotel, voted to authorize a strike by an 89% majority, in a major escalation of a citywide labor dispute among Chicago’s downtown hotels. The vote authorizes the rank-and-file bargaining […]
Press Releases April 20, 2011
Los Angeles, CA – More than 140 campus dining workers at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) have won union representation, choosing to join UNITE HERE Local 11. Campus dining workers at LMU, the largest Catholic university on the West Coast, are employees of the multinational food service company Sodexo. After a hard-fought campaign, the campus dining […]
Press Releases June 15, 2011
Chicago, IL–Today, strikers at the Congress Hotel, joined by hundreds of community supporters and members of UNITE HERE Local 1, are rallying outside the Congress Hotel to commemorate the 8th Anniversary of the Congress Hotel Strike, now the longest hotel strike in American history. On June 15, 2003, members of UNITE HERE Local 1 working […]
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 […]
Press Releases September 1, 2011
Dozens of Manhattan College dining hall workers will rally across the street from the entrance to the college’s Bronx campus on Thursday afternoon to protest actions of the school’s new dining hall operator, Gourmet Dining, which has failed to rehire about 65 of the workers who previously staffed Manhattan College’s dining hall since taking over […]
Press Releases March 22, 2012
Las Vegas, NV – AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is in Las Vegas today to pledge his support for Station Casino workers involved in the country’s largest private sector organizing drive. Since the 2007 management-led buyout allowed thirteen insiders to take $660 million out of the company, workers at Station Casinos have not had a raise, […]
Press Releases March 28, 2012
Pebble Beach, CA — UNITE HERE Local 483 members at the prestigious Lodge at Pebble Beach voted overwhelmingly to approve a 5-year labor contract Tuesday evening, March 27. Approximately 94% of the voting members approved the agreement, calling for a minimum of $1.90 per hour in additional wages for non-tipped workers over the span of […]
Press Releases April 18, 2012
Las Vegas – Today, a group of eighteen workers will commence a seven-day fast. Thirteen workers from Station Casinos along with five union members will give up food as part of the continued demand for a fair process for Station workers to decide whether they want representation. Milton Farfan, a dishwasher at Red Rock Casino, […]