Posts August 17, 2013
Workers strike to end second-class wages, benefits, heavy workloads Sheraton Vancouver Airport workers held a one-day strike on Saturday, August 17, to protest fourteen months of management delays and stalled negotiations. This is the first strike by hotel workers in the Vancouver area in 13 years. Sheraton workers, represented by UNITE HERE Local 40, are […]
Posts July 15, 2013
In 2014, marriage equality will be on the ballot in Oregon, and members of UNITE HERE Local 8 have become a driving force for marriage equality and transgender healthcare in their state. They stand proudly in solidarity with Oregon Pride at Work—an organization of community groups fighting for equal rights on shop floors, under the […]
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 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 […]
Posts April 20, 2012
On April 18, UNITE HERE members in Columbus, GA ratified a new contract for the more than 900 contracted food service workers at Fort Benning. With 98% voting in support, the new agreement builds on the landmark 2010 contract in which Fort Benning food service workers won unprecedented improvements in their economic and working conditions, […]
Posts October 13, 2011
As Los Angeles’ Hotel Bel-Air sets to reopen on October 14, former employees are fighting for their jobs back. In Fall 2009, the management abruptly announced it would completely shut down and layoff all employees on the day the workers’ union contract expired. Unlike hotels such as the Wilshire Grand, Beverly Hilton and more, the […]
Posts September 19, 2011
This month, campus dining workers at Northwestern University, members of UNITE HERE Local 1, won an agreement with their employer, Sodexo, that brings significant improvements in wages, health benefits and language that protects immigrant workers. The insistence by Northwestern students, faculty, administration and alumni that the University create good, sustainable jobs on campus was key […]
Posts August 23, 2011
After three years, Local 1 members at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, owned by Sage Hospitality, ratified their first contract this month and got a $96,000 payout for workers who had been fired during the contract campaign. It has been a long haul for hotel workers at the Blackstone, who began organizing to bring the […]
Posts June 10, 2011
Last month, Lakayana and Nathan, two student leaders from Madison, Wisconsin, drove over 2,000 miles to Las Vegas, Nevada, to help out with an action at Stations Casino. When they arrived in Las Vegas they teamed up with Fatima and Jonathan, two Loyola Marymount students from Los Angeles who were fresh off their organizing victory […]
Posts February 25, 2011
Since February 25th, 2010, Castlewood has maintained a lockout of its 61 food service and janitorial workers, pressuring them to give up job security protections and pay about 40% of their wages for family health insurance. Instead of giving in, the workers have waged an extraordinary yearlong struggle to return to work and protect their […]
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