Press Releases September 8, 2011
San Francisco–700 San Francisco Grand Hyatt and Hyatt Regency workers are joining thousands of Hyatt workers nationwide in launching week-long strikes today. Hyatt has singled itself out as the worst employer in the hotel industry. Hyatt has abused its housekeepers, replacing career housekeepers with minimum wage temporary workers and imposing dangerous workloads on those housekeepers […]
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 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, […]
Press Releases 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 […]
Press Releases 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 […]
Press Releases December 10, 2013
Norwalk, CT – December 10, 2013 – HEI Hotels & Resorts and labor union UNITE HERE affirmed today the formation of a long-term partnership focused on generating mutual growth and improving industry-wide labor relations through communication. While details of the strategic relationship are not being announced, the agreement resolves all ongoing matters between the union […]
Press Releases August 25, 2015
“The EB-5 regional center program is fundamentally unfair. Immigration laws should benefit all—not just the 1%, “said Maria Elena Durazo, vice president for civil rights, diversity, and immigration with UNITE HERE.
Press Releases September 2, 2015
Las Vegas, NV—Today members of the UNITE HERE’s Culinary Workers Union Local 226 attended the Nevada Gaming Control Board meeting and called on the state’s gaming regulators to investigate Deutsche Bank’s suitability to own Nevada casinos. A Deutsche Bank subsidiary owns 25% of Station Casinos LLC and its 19 casinos in Nevada. Despite having the […]
Press Releases September 4, 2015
UNITE HERE, a labor union of 275,000 workers across America including 6,000 in Minnesota, is launching an ad campaign highlighting Congresswoman Betty McCollum’s (D-MN) support of H.R. 511, a Republican-introduced bill that seeks to eliminate federal labor rights for American citizens working for businesses owned by Indian tribes (link to ad). The ads will start […]
Press Releases February 12, 2016
LAS VEGAS–UNITE HERE has sent a letter to Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) to urge the bank to dispose of its non-core casino asset through the Station Casinos (Red Rock Resorts) IPO in order to boost its capital position and investor confidence. The letter can be viewed here. “Investors might be surprised to learn that Deutsche Bank […]