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 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 November 20, 2014
Housekeepers at the Harvard-owned Doubletree by Hilton Boston-Cambridge in Allston are on strike today. It is the first strike of housekeepers in Boston’s history.
Press Releases April 17, 2015
Today, members of UNITE HERE join hundreds of immigration advocates converging in New Orleans for actions at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where judges will weigh whether to grant a request for an emergency stay that would allow the President’s new DAPA and DACA program expansion to proceed.
Press Releases June 26, 2015
This morning, over one hundred plant employees of the Mundelein-based Ruprecht Company, a privately-held meat processor and food manufacturer, walked off the job on strike in response to threats of a pending immigration audit by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A press conference with striking workers will be held outside of Chicago’s U.S. Immigration […]
Press Releases July 16, 2015
CHICAGO, IL – UNITE HERE will deliver thousands of petitions to the Accrediting Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) board meeting in Chicago on July 16. Patients, doctors, and members of the public can still sign the petition at NoMoreDrugMoney.org. Copies of the petition signatures will also be delivered to leading medical organizations and doctors […]
Press Releases May 15, 2016
LOS ANGELES, CA—Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are planning to launch a month-long series of deportation raids targeting undocumented Central American mothers and children, Reuters reports. UNITE HERE, a union that represents over 270,000 culinary and hospitality workers across North America, will join immigrant advocacy groups nationwide in opposing ICE’s second wave of raids this […]
Press Releases October 14, 2016
Las Vegas, NV – This month, the final Presidential Debate will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Culinary Union, the largest affiliate of UNITE HERE, one of the strongest political forces in the state will be mobilizing workers and immigrant voters to elect politicians who will fight for our families. Earlier this year, Culinary […]
Press Releases January 31, 2017
Los Angeles, CA—Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice-Chair incumbent and UNITE HERE General Vice President for Immigration, Civil Rights and Diversity Maria Elena Durazo has secured the endorsements of key Democratic, labor and civil rights leaders in her bid for re-election. A dynamic and vanguard voice of the American labor movement, Maria Elena Durazo’s courageous leadership […]
Press Releases February 23, 2017
[Washington, DC]—UNITE HERE, an organization representing 270,000 working people across North America, is launching a national week of action today with delegations of voters to Congressional district offices across the country. Actions are accompanied by a major ad campaign targeting GOP members of Congress who refuse to fix the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In particular, […]