Press Releases April 27, 2011
LONG BEACH – The HEI‐owned Hilton Long Beach hotel has fired five housekeepers after three of them complained to management about unfair working conditions at the hotel. The fired workers made the announcement Wednesday, April 27 at a press conference outside the hotel. All of the fired women had worked at the hotel for two […]
Press Releases December 19, 2008
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2008—In the final weeks of Republican control of Washington, the Bush Administration’s OSHA has entered into a nearly toothless settlement agreement with Cintas over lethal violations in its laundries. The agreement attempts to resolve six OSHA cases relating to citations against Cintas for safety hazards at laundry facilities across the country, including […]
Press Releases March 31, 2005
On Thursday, March 31, hundreds of working families, union leaders and community allies will hold a mass demonstration in New York City to challenge Charles Schwab to withdraw support for privatizing Social Security. The action will take place outside the Ritz Carlton hotel at 12noon at 2 West St., corner of Battery Place where Charles […]
Press Releases October 19, 2018
Honolulu, HI – The 7,700-worker Marriott strikes that have been sweeping across the country are set to escalate further on Saturday, with the largest and most militant mobilization of thousands of striking Marriott workers, political leaders, and allied supporters to date. In all eight striking tourist destinations across the country, the 7,700 striking UNITE HERE […]
Press Releases March 7, 2008
CHICAGO—On the one year anniversary of the horrific death of Cintas worker Eleazar Torres Gomez in Tulsa, Oklahoma, employees at Cintas, North America’s largest industrial laundry, launched a historic effort to force the company to provide safe workplaces. Chicago-area employees, elected leaders, and community allies rallied outside of the company’s Bedford Park, Illinois, laundry to […]
Press Releases January 23, 2009
LOS ANGELES—The California Court of Appeal removed restrictions limiting coverage under the city’s Living Wage Ordinance in a landmark decision this week. A panel of the Court unanimously issued a decision invalidating a regulation requiring that employees spend 20 hours per month on contracted work with the city to be covered. This week’s decision strengthens […]
Press Releases April 1, 2008
WASHINGTON, April 1, 2008 – The Cintas Corp. was criticized today in a U.S. Senate hearing for having a dangerous pattern of disregarding worker safety. The hearing, held by the Employment and Workplace Protections Subcommittee of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sought to hold leading corporations like Cintas accountable for repeated safety […]
Press Releases February 2, 2009
SAN LEANDRO, Calif., January 31—Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) pointed to area employer Cintas as a prime example of why the Employee Free Choice Act is crucial to America’s workers. The Congresswoman met with laundry workers today at a party celebrating the recent payment of $1.65 million in unlawfully withheld back wages to Cintas employees in […]
Press Releases July 16, 2018
Miami, FL – On Tuesday night UNITE HERE Local 355 Miami successfully capped two months’ worth of frantic grassroots, political, and media advocacy by packing the Miami Dade County Commission with members in red union shirts, and watching as the County Commission reverse course to deliver on promised raises for 2,000 concessions workers at the […]
Press Releases November 18, 2009
Hundreds to march through downtown to protect affordable Healthcare Morgan Stanley-owned hotel’s attack on worker health sparks outrage What: "Oakland Workers Rising" – March to protect healthcare for working families Where: Rally in front of the Oakland Downtown Marriott, 1001 Broadway, kicks off march at 4.30pm. The march will move to Frank Ogawa Plaza where […]
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