Posts March 18, 2005
New York, NY–On February 1, 2005, Cablevision cut off union health insurance for over two hundred Madison Square Garden workers and their families. This is part of Cablevision’s attempt to force these workers to agree to changes in their contract that would cut work opportunities, health insurance and pension benefits for many employees. Many workers […]
Posts May 13, 2005
Los Angeles–In what may prove to be the "tipping point" in L.A.’s year-old hotel labor dispute, the famed 570-room Beverly Hilton Hotel has reached an agreement with UNITE HERE Local 11 that improves workers’ wages, maintains free family health benefits, and expires in 2006. Nearly half the LA area hotels with contracts that expired in […]
Posts March 7, 2010
PLEASANTON, CA–Management at the elite Castlewood Country Club locked out 59 food-beverage and maintenance workers on February 25. The Club is trying to drive workers into giving up access to medical care for their children by forbidding all 59 cooks, dishwashers, and maintenance workers from working for the last seven consecutive days. That’s a devastating […]
Posts June 18, 2011
On Friday, June 17th, workers at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki officially launched a boycott of their hotel, with a rally followed by a press conference. This Hyatt will now join 17 other Hyatts across the country under boycott. Last week, on June 8, in an overwhelming show of solidarity, union hotel workers at the Hyatt […]
Posts February 24, 2012
Oakland, CA – Castlewood Country Club workers and UNITE HERE Local 2850 will join hundreds of religious leaders, students, union members, and participants in Occupy Oakland and Occupy San Francisco for a mass march through Pleasanton to Castlewood Country Club on Saturday, February 25th, at 9:30 am in protest of their two-year lockout of workers. […]
Posts October 30, 2015
HONOLULU — October 20, 2015 — After three years of contract bargaining, Kaiser Permanente employees represented by UNITE HERE Local 5 voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three-year collective bargaining agreement that covers 1,900 employees at 22 facilities throughout Hawaii. The agreement retains full pension coverage with no cuts to benefits, provides excellent pay increases, […]
Press Releases October 29, 2004
Honolulu, October 29 – Shortly after 3 am this morning, a group of locked out hotel workers from the Sheraton Palace hotel in San Francisco began picketing the employee entrance of the Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian hotels. Currently 4,000 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, have been locked-out by 14 hotels in […]
Press Releases November 2, 2004
Today, a tentative agreement was reached to end the month-long Atlantic City casino strike. Under the terms of the settlement, casino service workers have achieved the largest collective bargaining gains in the history of the gaming industry nationwide. Key highlights of the five-year agreement include: A 28.3% increase in the total economic package (wages, healthcare […]
Press Releases April 14, 2005
Cincinnati, OH – Cintas Corporation (CTAS) disclosed that the company is now the subject of additional Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigations with the agency’s filing of two new charges. The first charge alleged Cintas failed to hire and assign females to certain production positions, and the second charge alleged Cintas failed to hire and […]