Press Releases March 22, 2011
ANAHEIM-A group of Disney hotel workers delivered a 1,500-signature petition to Disney management today, March 22, demanding that the company replace employee ID cards encoded with social security numbers. Signatories are bellman, housekeepers, cooks, dishwashers, cashiers and more who work inside the three Disneyland Resort hotels. The petition submission comes exactly one month after […]
Press Releases April 20, 2011
Los Angeles, CA – More than 140 campus dining workers at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) have won union representation, choosing to join UNITE HERE Local 11. Campus dining workers at LMU, the largest Catholic university on the West Coast, are employees of the multinational food service company Sodexo. After a hard-fought campaign, the campus dining […]
Press Releases April 27, 2011
LONG BEACH – The HEI‐owned Hilton Long Beach hotel has fired five housekeepers after three of them complained to management about unfair working conditions at the hotel. The fired workers made the announcement Wednesday, April 27 at a press conference outside the hotel. All of the fired women had worked at the hotel for two […]
Press Releases June 30, 2011
Rabbis and other faith leaders have released a report today, pledging to treat a number of Hyatt Hotels as "not kosher." Open the Gates of Justice: A Clergy Report on Working Conditions at Hyatt Hotels describes a range of practice by Hyatt that clergy found "contrary to the religious traditions we uphold." This report is […]
Press Releases July 14, 2011
EAST MEADOW, NY–Joined by coworkers from around the country, hundreds of inflight catering workers for LSG Sky Chefs from New York’s airports marched to the headquarters of the German airline Lufthansa, Sky Chefs’ parent company, to demand the settlement of a fair contract for the more than 6,000 Sky Chefs workers across North America who […]
Press Releases July 21, 2011
Today, Hyatt housekeepers nationwide are stepping out of the shadows to demand an end to the abuses they face at work. Hyatt has eliminated jobs, replaced career housekeepers with minimum wage temporary workers, and imposed dangerous workloads on those housekeepers who remain. Now hotel workers and allies are holding protests in nine cities across the […]
Press Releases July 28, 2011
July 28, 2011, in several cities nationwide, HEI workers and students from universities which invest endowment monies in HEI are protesting the mistreatment of workers by HEI Hotels, the 7th largest hotel management company in the U.S. Protests are focusing on the company’s pattern of punishing actions against "whistle-blowers"–workers who speak up about their working […]
Press Releases September 8, 2011
San Francisco–700 San Francisco Grand Hyatt and Hyatt Regency workers are joining thousands of Hyatt workers nationwide in launching week-long strikes today. Hyatt has singled itself out as the worst employer in the hotel industry. Hyatt has abused its housekeepers, replacing career housekeepers with minimum wage temporary workers and imposing dangerous workloads on those housekeepers […]
Press Releases October 10, 2011
LOS ANGELES–Former Hotel Bel-Air employees fighting for their jobs back are planning a major march on Hotel Bel-Air’s opening day, workers and clergy announced today, Oct. 10, at a press conference outside the hotel. The Hotel Bel-Air will re-open on Oct. 14 after a multi-million dollar renovation. Organizers are asking protest participants to meet at […]
Press Releases December 5, 2011
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – December 5, 2011 – Disneyland Resort and UNITE HERE Local 11, the union representing 2,100 workers at the Resort’s three hotels, announced today that they have concluded negotiations on a mutually-agreeable, five-year collective bargaining agreement. The contract will be effective once voted upon and ratified by the Local 11 members at the […]