Press Releases January 17, 2005
(Washington, DC) – After more than five months of negotiations, representatives for workers from 14 DC hotels and the Hotel Association have reached a tentative agreement. The union had set a deadline of January 15 to reach an agreement or take further action, up to and including a strike. Members will vote to ratify the […]
Posts March 18, 2017
Airline catering and airport workers from Dulles and National Airports joined protesters at Dulles International Airport today to rally against President Trump’s second immigration order, also known as Muslim Ban 2.0. The majority of airline catering and airport workers at Dulles and National Airports are immigrants, including many refugees. Workers and allies also called on […]
Industries May 17, 2014
Before the famous Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters first organized, another group of African-American railroad workers helped them get their start. That union lives on today in UNITE HERE, representing dining car workers on Amtrak trains throughout the United States.
Posts June 1, 2005
On Tuesday, May 31, UNITE HERE Local 2 and the Multi-Employer Group (MEG) representing fourteen San Francisco hotels headed back to the bargaining table for the first time in three and a half months. Local 2 members had been waiting for a response to their latest contract offer made to the hotels on February 14th. […]
Posts May 16, 2022
97 Terminated Staff Win Right to Return to Jobs Burnaby, B.C. — Hilton Metrotown hotel workers locked out since April 15, 2021, voted May 11, 2022, to ratify a new contract by a 98% yes vote. The vote to approve this groundbreaking three-year collective bargaining agreement ends the picket line outside of the hotel and […]
Posts June 20, 2012
Atlantic City, NJ-UNITE HERE Local 54 has filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board in Philadelphia over Tropicana’s illegal suspension of 21 workers who engaged a peaceful first amendment protest which included a civil disobedience action. In a letter to the NLRB accompanying the charges, Local 54’s attorney wrote, "Tropicana, however, chose to use […]
Posts April 20, 2012
On April 18, UNITE HERE members in Columbus, GA ratified a new contract for the more than 900 contracted food service workers at Fort Benning. With 98% voting in support, the new agreement builds on the landmark 2010 contract in which Fort Benning food service workers won unprecedented improvements in their economic and working conditions, […]
Posts July 3, 2012
Last Wednesday, the members of UNITE HERE! Local 35 and Local 34 unanimously ratified four-year contracts with Yale University. The contracts provide opportunities for job advancement, quality, affordable healthcare, and substantial wage increases for approximately 1200 service and maintenance employees in Local 35, and 3500 clerical and technical employees in Local 34. The contracts ensure […]
Press Releases November 16, 2021
Workers at HelloFresh have alerted government agencies and are calling for investigations of higher-than-average injury rates at America’s #1 meal kit company’s Richmond CA and Aurora CO factories. As online food ordering exploded during COVID, HelloFresh doubled its U.S. revenues in 2020 – but the workers who prep, assemble, and ship these meal kits say […]