Posts September 28, 2012
On February 25, 2010, Castlewood Country Club workers were locked out. On October 16, 2012 – two years, seven months, and 21 days later – they will return to work. We want to thank everyone who stood by the workers throughout a long, hard campaign – who marched across Pleasanton, brought Mother’s Day flowers for […]
Posts August 27, 2013
SEATTLE, WA — Seattle Hyatt hotel workers and supporters are launching a boycott of the Hyatt at Olive 8 and the Grand Hyatt Seattle, denouncing difficult working conditions, unaffordable healthcare, and use of subcontracted workers. Seattle Hyatt workers also say the hotels’ local owner, Richard Hedreen, has refused to agree to a fair process for […]
Posts September 16, 2013
Campus food service workers and their student, faculty, and community allies continue to build a movement for real food, real jobs, & thriving communities in Cambridge and Boston! In just 18 months, 650 dining hall workers at Harvard Law School, Northeastern University, Lesley University, the Episcopal Divinity School, and Simmons College have voted to join […]
Posts October 27, 2016
Early in the morning of October 25th the Harvard University dining hall workers reached a tentative agreement with the university administration. The victory came after the dining service workers struck for twenty-one days. Workers picketed, marched, rallied and took arrests in acts of civil disobedience. The strike came to a close after a massive student […]
Press Releases November 10, 2004
Los Angeles — Elected officials, community groups and clergy vow to honor request “to avoid eating, meeting or sleeping” at hotels involved in the labor dispute to put financial pressure on the Hotel Employer’s Council, comprised of nine luxury hotels in the city. Until date, without a boycott announcement, hotels have lost approximately $1 million […]
Press Releases December 20, 2004
What: Leaders of the San Francisco Religious community will conduct a Candlelight Vigil to offer their spiritual support to San Francisco hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE, Local 2, who are trying to maintain affordable health insurance and who are working without at a union contract. The ceremony will be held on the winter solstice […]
Press Releases January 16, 2005
Michigan City, IN-Today a majority of Blue Chip negotiating committee members voted to continue working until the next negotiating session with management. Company officials had cancelled last week’s negotiating session without notice. Yesterday, negotiations were rescheduled for Wednesday, January 19th at 10 a.m. A strike is still possible at Blue Chip casino if a settlement […]
Press Releases January 31, 2013
Las Vegas, NV – Cosmopolitan workers have been negotiating a union contract for 18 months with Cosmopolitan casino owner, Deutsche Bank, without progress on major issues including wages and benefits. Workers want a fair contract that reflects the Las Vegas standard that has been established over decades and picketed outside the Cosmopolitan casino on January […]
Press Releases January 4, 2019
Washington, DC – Five hundred UNITE HERE represented federal building cafeteria workers have been out on furlough since before Christmas, and without intervention will lose backpay entitled to other furloughed employees, and lapse of their healthcare coverage effective as early as February 1st. These workers are subcontracted by the federal government, and make under $32,000 […]
Press Releases April 21, 2020
BALTIMORE – In a letter released today, a majority of the Baltimore City Council are calling on the Orioles to support the 700 Delaware North concessions workers at Camden Yards who have been laid off without pay while the MLB season is delayed due to COVID-19. “These are hard times for all of us. The […]