Press Releases November 9, 2004
Councilmember Eric Garcetti joined Tom Hayden and representatives from Sweatshop Watch, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Progressive Christians Uniting, garment workers’ union UNITE HERE and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, to cheer the passage this morning of the nation’s most innovative and far-reaching anti-sweatshop purchasing ordinance to date. The ordinance, which builds on the […]
Press Releases March 3, 2005
Over 200 Connecticut residents are demanding a hearing on a proposal to loosen pollution restrictions on the Cintas Corp.’s industrial laundry in Branford. The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection has issued a draft permit that allows Cincinnati-based Cintas to nearly double its discharges of polluted water to the town’s treatment plant, despite the DEP’s four-year […]
Press Releases March 7, 2005
OTTAWA – Alex Dagg, Canadian Director and Executive Vice President of UNITE HERE – the labor union that represents workers in the apparel, textile, laundry, distribution, hotel and food service industries – today told a House of Commons subcommittee Canada should implement a safeguard available through the World Trade Organization to restrict textile and clothing […]
Press Releases April 8, 2005
On Tuesday, April 5th, members of UNITEHERE Local 274 ratified a new (3) three-year contract with the Wyndham Franklin Plaza. A secret ballot ratification vote was held at the hotel after a presentation of the contract improvements, agreed to between the parties, was made to the members. The new contract was ratified overwhelmingly by a […]
Press Releases July 8, 2005
Toronto – UNITE HERE Canada filed a petition today with the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) requesting that they enact available mechanisms to limit a huge deluge of imports from China, which threatens Canada’s sixth largest manufacturing sector. This unprecedented action follows the release earlier this week of a report detailing the surge of imports […]
Press Releases August 12, 2005
Jackson, MS-On August 9th, workers from military uniform contractor American Power Source joined with state legislators, civil rights activists and union leaders to announce the filing of a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. At the AFL-CIO’s state headquarters, workers Annie Williams and Stephanie Erby were joined by State Reps. Jim Evans and Eric […]
Press Releases November 17, 2005
On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 the workers at the Fairmont Royal York voted to ratify a renewed three-year collective agreement. It covers virtually all the frontline service staff – 850 cooks, stewards, room attendants, housepersons, servers, laundry, bell, door, valet, switchboard and bartenders. “This agreement is good for Royal York workers, good for the city’s […]
Press Releases March 9, 2006
(Washington, DC)-At a press conference today, UNITE HERE released “Conduct Unbecoming: Sweatshops and the U.S. Military Uniform Industry,” documenting poor working conditions in factories that make uniforms for the armed forces. The report finds that uniforms for our country’s enlisted men and women are often sewn in domestic sweatshops with conditions more like what people […]
Press Releases July 29, 2006
Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE:HLT) today announced a tentative agreement with the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council on a new contract relating to the Hilton New York and Waldorf=Astoria Hotels, and also announced a five-year agreement with UNITE HERE that the parties have termed a “Partnership for Future Growth.” The New York agreement, which […]
Press Releases September 14, 2006
CHICAGO – UNITE HERE Local 1 announced a tentative agreement with Starwood in Chicago covering over 900 workers at five hotels. The agreement was reached Tuesday with Tishman Hotels, the owner of the Sheraton Chicago, and yesterday with Starwood Hotels, which owns and operates four other properties: Westin Michigan Avenue, the W City Center, the […]