Press Releases June 11, 2005
(Los Angeles) – At 5:00 AM today, Los Angeles Mayor Elect Antonio Villaraigosa called a press conference to announce a tentative agreement between UNITE HERE Local 11 and the Los Angeles Hotel Employers Council. The last minute deal came just in time to call off a scheduled lockout of 2500 hotel workers from seven of […]
Press Releases February 18, 2021
UNITE HERE applauds the introduction of the U.S. Citizenship Act, President Biden’s immigration reform bill that would provide pathways to citizenship and strengthen labor protections for undocumented immigrants, Dreamers, and Temporary Protected Status holders. Workers have advocated for decades both in their workplaces and their communities to secure these protections. During the 2020 presidential election, over 1,700 UNITE […]
Press Releases April 14, 2005
New Haven Conn., and New York, NY, April 13, 2005: Graduate employees at Columbia University and Yale University have voted to go on strike at both campuses beginning Monday, April 18th. The coordinated job action is the first-ever multi-campus strike in the history of the Ivy League. “A majority of teaching assistants on Yale’s central […]
Press Releases March 5, 2020
WASHINGTON—In the wake of the continued spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., the American Federation of Teachers and UNITE HERE—which together represent educators, healthcare professionals, public employees, hotel, food service, airport, warehouse and casino workers across the country—are calling on the federal government to issue clear national guidance and take decisive action to support […]
Press Releases November 28, 2011
UNITE HERE, the hospitality workers union, commends Yale University for its decision not to reinvest in private-equity hotelier, HEI Hospitality. Earlier this year, Brown University announced that it will not reinvest in HEI until the University is confident that HEI is respecting the rights of its workers, and the University of Pennsylvania stated publicly that […]
Press Releases December 2, 2011
LOS ANGELES – Workers from the popular W Hollywood Hotel filed wage and hour complaints on December 1 with the State of California, alleging hotel management has broken state law by not allowing workers to take breaks while on the job. In three dozen complaints, W housekeepers, bellman and other workers demand that hotel-owner HEI […]