Posts January 16, 2014
Watch the video here In the hospitality industry, the recession is over and business is booming. But hospitality is also the largest low-wage industry in Los Angeles, and 40 percent of its workers live in poverty. They have to work two jobs and depend on some form of public assistance just to get by. As […]
Posts March 21, 2014
Cafeteria workers at Simmons College in Boston and Lesley University in Cambridge are the latest in a wave of 800 campus food service workers who have joined Local 26 in greater Boston. Workers at Simmons College ratified their first union contract in January. The average cook, food server, barista, or dishwasher will see her pay […]
Posts April 11, 2014
By Father Clete Kiley Reposted from Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good By now, many of us have become familiar with the cold facts and statistics of our nation’s failed immigration system and the immense human suffering it causes. Twenty-five thousand Central American children cross our border every year trying to be reunited with […]
Posts November 10, 2014
After organizing to join UNITE HERE Local 8, workers at the Experience Music Project (EMP) overwhelmingly ratified their first contract on October 27, 2014.
Posts April 28, 2015
Each year on April 28, unions like ours pause to observe Workers Memorial Day. We honor the hard work and sacrifice of those who have been injured, made sick or killed on the job and we reaffirm our commitment to fight for safe and healthy workplaces.
Posts August 21, 2015
The U.S. public has long relied on the American Heart Associationโs recommendations for how to prevent heart attack and stroke. Given the AHAโs influence, we believe the organization should avoid financial ties to corporations with commercial interests in cardiovascular health.ย However, the AHA and its leadership accept large sums of money from individuals and corporations, including […]
Posts April 9, 2018
via Huffington PostโFifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, to march with the cityโs striking black sanitation workers. Wages were bad, and conditions were so unsafe that workers were seriously injured or even killed while using the trash compactors of their trucks. The city of Memphis, their employer, refused […]
Press Releases October 14, 2016
Working Americans for Affordable Healthcare launched its first initiative today: a series of ads calling on House Republicans in Nevada, Virginia and Florida to reject the โRyan Planโ for health care taxes.
Posts February 27, 2021
For immediate release Contact: MJ Leira, 917-565-7697, [email protected] โUNITE HERE applauds the House for their move to extend unemployment insurance so laid-off workers can get through this difficult time, grant $1,400 stimulus checks, and safeguard workersโ hard-earned pensions. โWe also commend House Democrats for approving a long-overdue minimum wage hike and urge the Senate to […]