Press Releases November 17, 2018
Boston, MA—The all-seasons strike of Boston hotel workers is over after strikers overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new contract with Marriott on Saturday. The 46-day strike, which was the longest and largest hotel worker strike in Boston’s history, led to the richest and most economically progressive contract in Local 26 history. Hotel workers rallied around […]
Press Releases January 10, 2019
SEATTLE (Jan. 10, 2019) — On Wednesday, the City of Seattle joined national and local leadership of the hotel workers’ union, UNITE HERE, to announce that they will be filing a joint appeal of the hotel industry-backed Christmas Eve overturn of the first-in-the-nation law giving groundbreaking sexual harassment and safety protections to workers. The citywide […]
Press Releases November 15, 2021
(Honolulu) – On Saturday, November 13, 2021, Kaiser Permanente and the Alliance of Health Care Unions reached tentative agreement on a four-year contract, covering nearly 50,000 Kaiser Permanente health care employees in 22 local unions—including UNITE HERE Local 5—and strengthening the Labor Management Partnership. The agreement includes new staffing language to continue to protect employees […]
Press Releases September 13, 2022
Washington, D.C. — Sodexo workers rallied near the House of Representatives building today, educating the politicians they serve and the DC community about the financial struggles and unequal treatment they face as federal subcontracted food service workers. Workers at the nation’s largest federal food service contractor Sodexo report their wages aren’t matching the massive increase […]
Press Releases January 31, 2024
(Washington, D.C.)— Today, a supermajority of restaurant workers at The Bazaar by José Andrés in Washington, D.C., have announced their intention to form a union with UNITE HERE Local 25. The celebrity chef’s highly-rated restaurant is located within the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC hotel, the same federally-owned former Post Office that previously housed the Trump […]
Press Releases June 30, 2009
Chicago – In the second day of UNITE HERE’s convention, delegates from across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada elected John Wilhelm as the union’s President. President Wilhelm was elected to a five-year term along with 18 other union officers. The convention delegates also voted for a comprehensive overhaul of the union’s constitution. UNITE […]
Press Releases July 16, 2018
Miami, FL – On Tuesday night UNITE HERE Local 355 Miami successfully capped two months’ worth of frantic grassroots, political, and media advocacy by packing the Miami Dade County Commission with members in red union shirts, and watching as the County Commission reverse course to deliver on promised raises for 2,000 concessions workers at the […]
Press Releases March 25, 2010
Washington, DC – Today, hotel workers told Columbia Sussex Corporation that they are tired of paying for the company’s debt and want a fair process to organize a union at rallies around the country, and they called on customers to boycott 8 hotels owned by the company, according to UNITE HERE, the hotel workers union. […]
Posts February 24, 2005
Gelmart Industries, Inc., which is headquartered in New York City and owns Gelmart Industries Philippines, is a privately-owned company that specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of intimate apparel for Wal-Mart, K-mart, Jockey, Frederick’s of Hollywood, and Gelmart’s own labels like Lady Marlene. The working conditions at one Gelmart subcontractor included: working 13-hour shifts, and […]
Posts March 1, 2011
On Tuesday, March 1, cafeteria workers at Bronx Community College who are fighting to keep their jobs rallied with fellow members of UNITE HERE Local 100. The College is changing food service contractors to an as-yet unannounced new company, and workers have received no assurances that their employment will continue. The nine cafeteria workers have […]