Pages May 22, 2014
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Posts March 5, 2008
Low-Wage Workers Call on Goldman to Spread the Wealth to Cafeteria Workers Amid the bustle of the financial district, hundreds of cafeteria workers employed by Aramark at many of Wall Street’s largest investment banks rallied on March 5 and demanded that Ararmark owner and client Goldman Sachs take action to lift the city’s corporate cafeteria […]
Posts April 8, 2013
Long Beach, Calif. (April 8, 2013) – Hyatt hotels in Long Beach, UNITE HERE Local 11, and Long Beach City Councilwoman, the Honorable Dr. Suja Lowenthal, today announced that associates at Hyatt Regency Long Beach and Hyatt The Pike Long Beach have elected to be represented by UNITE HERE Local 11. All Hyatt associates who […]
Posts August 4, 2016
(Via Philly.com)—The Trump Taj Mahal was Atlantic City’s tallest building when it opened in 1990, and Marc Scittina got in on the ground floor, hoping to ride an elevator up into the middle class. Scittina, now 54 and living in Egg Harbor Township, did exactly that for most of his 26-year career as a unionized […]
Posts December 6, 2017
“Juana Melara, who has worked as a hotel housekeeper for decades, says she and her fellow housekeepers didn’t complain about guests who exposed themselves or masturbated in front of them for fear of losing the paycheck they needed to support their families. Melara recalls “feeling the pressure of someone’s eyes” on her as she cleaned […]
Posts April 13, 2015
Workers at the Harvard-owned DoubleTree Suites by Hilton in Allston announced Saturday that they have won a union. Workers joined UNITE HERE Local 26, Boston’s hotel workers union, ending a more than 2-year public fight and boycott. During the course of their campaign housekeepers educated the public about the pain they experienced cleaning hotel rooms. […]
Posts December 20, 2007
More than 100 workers and support rallied yesterday at the county office building in Orlando, Florida to encourage the county to reject food service giant Aramark at the Orange County Convention Center. Aramark is one of three companies bidding for the food service contract at the OCCC. Carrying signs that read “Aramark: Recipe for Disaster,” […]
Posts December 19, 2014
SFO restaurant owners and UNITE HERE Local 2 have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract! The agreement provides for: Strong job security protections in the event of restaurant closures or lease terminations Affordable, quality healthcare for workers and their families each year of the agreement, which expires August 2019 Significant pension contributions increases […]
Posts April 28, 2015
Each year on April 28, unions like ours pause to observe Workers Memorial Day. We honor the hard work and sacrifice of those who have been injured, made sick or killed on the job and we reaffirm our commitment to fight for safe and healthy workplaces.