Press Releases November 8, 2010
Honolulu – UNITE HERE Local 5, the union that represents nearly 1,800 health care workers – employed by Kaiser Permanente at 21 facilities on Oahu, Maui and the Big Island – announced today that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with Kaiser Permanente – Hawaii. The new three-year agreement will expire […]
Press Releases February 16, 2011
River Forest, IL – Approximately 30 campus dining workers at Dominican University have won union recognition from their employer, Chartwells, choosing to join UNITE HERE Local 1. "I’m proud of the work we do, and I’m glad that Chartwells respected us and let me and my coworkers choose what we wanted. I support the union […]
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 November 18, 2011
Community Leaders Converge on Hyatt Regency Santa Clara in Support Where: Front Entrance; Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, 5101 Great America Parkway When: Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, 8:00a.m. Santa Clara, Calif. Today, two former Hyatt housekeepers, Martha and Lorena Reyes are filing a retaliation charge against the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara with the federal agency, Equal […]
Press Releases September 17, 2015
UNITE HERE joins hundreds of immigration groups nationwide in the federal observance of Citizenship Day, also referred to as Constitution Day, to advocate for and assist the nearly 9 million green card holders living in the United States who are eligible to become citizens.
Press Releases May 10, 2018
LAS VEGAS—Members of UNITE HERE’s Culinary and Bartenders Unions will hold a strike vote on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at the Thomas & Mack Center of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Union contracts covering 50,000 union workers expire on June 1, 2018 at 34 casino resorts on the Las Vegas Strip and Downtown Las Vegas, […]
Press Releases December 20, 2019
Honolulu – Over 500 UNITE HERE Local 5 members at HMSHost Honolulu—workers at the concessions, restaurants, Starbucks, bars, pantry, maintenance, etc.—are on strike. This is the first time that HMSHost workers have gone on strike in Hawai’i. The recent contract negotiations on December 10th and 11th saw little movement from HMSHost, prompting the workers to […]
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 March 3, 2016
Today employees from Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas, who recently won a union election, are heading to Trump’s headquarters in Manhattan to speak to the famed negotiator and deliver a demand to negotiate a first contract.
Press Releases March 4, 2016
On March 4, Trump hotel workers demonstrated at a Trump campaign rally in New Orleans, after Mr. Trump failed to show at contract negotiations organized by employees of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.