Posts May 25, 2005
Kahuku, HI -" Turtle Bay workers walked off the job early Saturday morning to protest abusive working conditions for housekeepers and other health and safety issues for laundry and Palm Terrace restaurant workers. At around 3AM, the union delivered a letter to the manager on duty stating that workers were going on strike until 11:59 […]
Posts September 29, 2005
As a result of escalating workload and duties, room attendants at the Fairmont Royal York report being unable to take their breaks. On Thursday September 22, all room attendants took their breaks at the same time and room attendants held rallies in the staff cafeteria to educate other departments about the unbearable workload. As a […]
Posts November 2, 2009
After months of working with no contract and facing the prospect of losing the free family health benefits that they’d been receiving for years, the cafeteria workers at Hunter College finally won a collective bargaining agreement from AVI Foodsystems. This contract — ratified unanimously on October 27 — includes free family health benefits, a significant […]
Posts June 14, 2010
Pleasanton, CA – Maintenance and food and beverage workers at the elite Castlewood Country Club who have been locked out of their jobs for over 100 days protested in front of the Club on Saturday, June 12, to demand the Club end the lockout and bargain in good faith with their union. The Castlewood workers […]
Posts July 13, 2010
Hospitality workers marched through Anaheim’s central tourist district on Monday evening with one message for area tourism employers: “Don’t follow Disney.” Donning “Black-Eye Mickey” masks, protesters said Disney’s greedy insistence on slashing its workers healthcare has put a black eye on the whole city of Anaheim. Since Disney’s attack on hotel workers began two years […]
Posts September 17, 2010
Hotel workers at the Toronto Hilton (145 Richmond St. West) and the Hilton Toronto Airport (5875 Airport Rd) have staged a one-day walkout to protest cutbacks at the two hotels, owned by Westmont affiliates. “They tell guests that all the food is fresh and wild, but more and more food is coming pre-prepared,” said Joe […]
Posts November 4, 2010
Hyatt Regency Toronto workers called a boycott of their employer on November 4. The boycott is a response to the growing frustration workers have with Hyatt as a result of its unwillingness to bargain a fair collective agreement, and more recently, its decision to suspend the grievance procedure for employees. UNITE HERE Local 75 members […]
Posts June 17, 2011
The Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community and local restaurant Pizza Pi raised hundreds of dollars in raffle tickets and food and beverage proceeds for fired HEI Hilton Housekeepers on Wednesday, June 15. About 100 community members came out to support the five fired HEI Hilton housekeepers, packing the small pizzeria […]
Posts September 2, 2011
On August 25, 2011, Administrative Law Judge Gregory Z. Meyerson issued a long-awaited verdict on the sixteen separate allegations of unlawful behavior which had been lodged against Remington Lodging & Hospitality LLC, the operator of the Sheraton Anchorage hotel, by the National Labor Relations Board (the Board), the federal agency authorized to enforce the National […]
Posts July 10, 2012
SEATTLE – Amidst news of the impending sale of the Hilton Seattle Hotel, the R.C. Hedreen Company – the hotel’s current owner – agreed to the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement yesterday with UNITE HERE Local 8, the union representing nearly 100 workers at the hotel. This agreement includes a guarantee that workers […]