Press Releases July 16, 2009
New York – SEIU VP Bruce Raynor may need to find a new legal team after today’s hearing before Judge George Daniels in the Federal District Court of Manhattan. Tom Kennedy, Raynor’s chief legal architect behind the secession plan, was actually billing UNITE HERE for his work, while advising Raynor and SEIU how to secede […]
Press Releases July 20, 2009
WHAT: Contract signing ceremony at the new InterContinental Chicago O’Hare Hotel. Workers, business & community leaders celebrate labor-management partnership. WHEN: Thursday, July 23, 2009 TIME: 10:00AM WHERE: InterContinental Chicago O’Hare, 5300 River Road, Rosemont, IL WHO: Members of UNITE HERE Local 450 – Workers at InterContinental Chicago O’Hare Bill Biggerstaff, […]
Press Releases August 7, 2009
Contract includes Employee Bill of Rights for Respect UNITE HERE members employed by Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services (DNC-THS), the airport division of Delaware North, ratified by an overwhelming 98% margin a new collective bargaining agreement today. This is a remarkable victory with a company that up until recently had been collaborating with SEIU […]
Press Releases August 25, 2009
New York – Yesterday, a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board dismissed a representation petition filed by Workers United/SEIU requesting an election to replace UNITE HERE as the bargaining representative for 2,100 employees of Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services (DNC-THS), the airport division of Delaware North. This is a victory for Delaware […]
Press Releases October 22, 2009
San Francisco hotel workers voted overwhelmingly today to authorize strikes against 31 of the city’s upscale hotels. Over 3,000 workers cast ballots, with 92.3% approving the measure. The union’s 125-member bargaining committee now has the authority to call actions up to and including strikes if necessary. Workers will remain on the job unless and until […]
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 March 9, 2010
Three bellmen and a housekeeper to attend annual meeting in San Antonio, supporting ‘Say on Pay’ initiative and contrasting executive and worker compensation ANAHEIM–Three bellmen and a housekeeper from the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif. will travel to San Antonio this week to attend the Walt Disney Corporation’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, March 10. […]
Press Releases May 5, 2010
TORONTO– Guests at Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, the Delta Chelsea and Delta East hotels are unwittingly participating in purported ‘green’ programs that deliver negligible environmental benefits and are instead aimed at significantly reducing the number of room attendants employed at the hotels each day. Hotel workers, along with unions who do business with the hotels, […]
Press Releases December 20, 2010
Burnaby, British Columbia – On Friday, December 17, hotel workers overwhelmingly ratified a new four-year collective agreement reached earlier in the week with the Greater Vancouver Hotel Employers Association (GVHEA). The agreement comes after months of demonstrations, street actions, and a boycott launched earlier this fall against the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. The terms of the […]
Press Releases January 26, 2011
LOS ANGELES – Workers from the Wilshire Hotel are on strike today, after hotel owner Leo Lee slashed workers’ wages and benefits. For example, Lee cut wages of workers earning about $10 an hour to the state’s minimum wage of $8 an hour, while others earning about $13.70 were cut to about $10 an hour. […]