Posts February 4, 2013
Las Vegas, NV – Cosmopolitan workers have been negotiating a union contract for 18 months with Cosmopolitan casino owner, Deutsche Bank, without progress on major issues including wages and benefits. Workers want a fair contract that reflects the Las Vegas standard that has been established over decades and picketed outside the Cosmopolitan casino on January […]
Posts April 12, 2013
PITTSBURGH – On April 11, for the first time at Rivers Casino Pittsburgh, casino workers marched on their management to deliver a declaration demanding respect on the job and a fair process to organize a union freely and without management intimidation or retaliation. The workers at Pittsburgh’s only casino were joined by a coalition of […]
Posts April 23, 2013
On April 20, hundreds of Baltimore residents rallied to demand an end to the city’s failed development policies, which subsidize developers without ensuring public benefits. The march began at the construction site for the planned Horseshoe Casino and continued past the Hyatt Regency, which has been identified as a symbol of Baltimore’s failed development policies. […]
Posts January 23, 2018
“Today American immigrants saw once again that both major political parties continue to fail them and their families. The Trump administration precipitated the current crisis for both TPS and DACA by ending protections without a plan to pass legislation with his own party, which controls both houses of Congress. Rather than holding the line and forcing a resolution to this humanitarian crisis […]
Posts January 24, 2019
Watch Pablo’s interview on MSNBC Furloughed federal subcontractor Pablo Lazaro, a cook at a Smithsonian museum and a member of UNITE HERE Local 23, implores Congress to take action and do their jobs. Trump’s shutdown has hurt over 800,000 workers in the United States who have been working without pay for weeks. But for subcontracted […]
Posts June 14, 2010
This weekend, UNITE HERE members and Sleep With the Right People are marching in Pride events in Baltimore, Honolulu, Portland, OR, and Sacramento. Go to www.sleepwiththerightpeople.org to learn more about Pride events throughout the summer. In the last several weeks, UNITE HERE members in Hartford, CT; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; Boston; Pittsburgh; Honolulu; and Philadelphia marched […]
Posts March 3, 2014
Two UNITE HERE locals are joining forces for contract negotiations with Walt Disney World in Orlando this week. The contract affects the breadth of duties performed by the resort’s 20,000 UNITE HERE-represented employees, including housekeepers, custodians, cooks, dishwashers, servers, bartenders, ride operators, and fast food workers, among others. Almost one thousand members of UNITE HERE Local […]
Posts April 14, 2009
Federal, state and local tax dollars are being used to buy products made in sweatshops, according to a new report released today by SweatFree Communities titled Subsidizing Sweatshops II: How our tax dollars can foster worker rights and economic recovery rather than fuel the race to the bottom. Findings include child labor, obligatory pregnancy tests, […]