Posts October 22, 2010
Campus dining workers at DePaul University, members of UNITE HERE Local 1, voted to ratify a new contract on October 21. Their new agreement with Chartwells brings significantly improved wages, affordable family health care benefits, and language that protects immigrant workers. "Even with all the obstacles that we went through, we stood together, and we […]
Posts January 31, 2011
Chanting "HEI, you’re no good; treat your workers like you should," dozens of university students from across the country walked the picket line in solidarity with hotel workers outside the Sheraton Crystal City in Virginia on Saturday night, January 29, expressing outrage over labor rights violations allegedly committed by the hotel and its corporate investor, […]
Posts February 9, 2011
On Wednesday, February 9, over 250 graduate teachers and researchers who work at Yale University rallied behind the release of a new report, "Yale Inc: The Corporate Model in Higher Education." Members of GESO, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, are seeking union recognition. The report describes how the people who do the work of […]
Posts April 25, 2011
On April 21, the nurses of NNOC Texas/National Nurses United volunteered to provide San Antonio Hyatt workers free care outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel, where health insurance is costly and out of reach for many workers and their families. There, hotel workers and allies, including Linda Chavez-Thompson, called on Hyatt to stop pushing workers onto […]
Posts May 10, 2011
Hyatt housekeepers across the U.S. are out talking to community and business leaders, asking them to join housekeepers in sending a message to Hyatt to clean up its act. Hyatt Hotels abuse housekeepers. Hyatt—a company run by billionaires–has eliminated jobs, replaced career housekeepers with minimum wage temporary workers, and imposed dangerous workloads on those who […]
Posts May 12, 2011
UNITE HERE Local 483 hotel members and community allies rallied in support of the Asilomar Conference Grounds workers, Thursday, May 12. Two issues are currently at the forefront of these hotel workers’ concerns are onerous workloads an a 5-year wage freeze.: 1. Onerous workloads. Since ARAMARK took over operations in October 2009, the Asilomar housekeeper […]
Posts June 18, 2011
On Friday, June 17th, workers at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki officially launched a boycott of their hotel, with a rally followed by a press conference. This Hyatt will now join 17 other Hyatts across the country under boycott. Last week, on June 8, in an overwhelming show of solidarity, union hotel workers at the Hyatt […]
Posts June 24, 2011
On June 23, in Oakland, California, Local 2850 escalated the fight at Castlewood County Club, where the workers have been locked out since February 25, 2010. In the first civil disobedience to take place at the Club, nearly 100 demonstrators blocked the roadway leading to an entrance of the golf course for several hours during […]
Posts September 26, 2011
Workers at the East Bay’s only Indian casino have asked the San Pablo council to help them in their quest for better wages, benefits and working conditions. Casino San Pablo Workers, Contra Costa Labor Council, UNITE HERE Local 2850, SEIU-USWW, Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), San Pablo Residents, and many others stood […]
Posts October 18, 2011
UNITE HERE’s role in the sustainable food movement is about to take an enormous step forward, as UNITE HERE members who cook in campus dining halls and public schools are teaming up with students on their campuses to participate in the first national Food Day on October 24. Food Day events around the country will […]