Posts August 20, 2012
In an August 17 decision, Administrative Law Judge Clifford Anderson of the National Labor Relations Board found that Castlewood Country Club has maintained an illegal lockout since August 10, 2010. He recommended that the NLRB order Castlewood to reinstate the locked-out workers and pay them two years of back wages and benefits. "We’ve been saying […]
Posts May 30, 2015
In late May, workers at Baltimore’s BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport visited Frankfurt, Germany. They have asked Fraport AG — parent company of BWI’s concessions developer AirMall USA — to address the poor quality of jobs and working conditions the airport’s food and retail concessions program. Frustrated with lack of action since Fraport acquired AirMall nearly […]
Posts February 16, 2010
In President’s Day address, leaders call on Disney Corp. to provide affordable healthcare for its hotel workers CA Speaker-Elect John A. Pérez, CA Assembly Member Jose Solorio, and other elected leaders showed support for hunger-striking Disney hotel workers on Monday by calling on the Walt Disney Corporation to continue to provide affordable healthcare for its […]
Posts April 14, 2008
As part of an international week of action, workers took to the streets in Ireland, the UK and Belgium last week to inform the public of concerns about Aramark’s poor treatment of workers, communities and clients. Over the course of the week, workers in the three countries were joined by Jack Rushton, an Aramark employee […]
Posts March 26, 2014
Statement from D. Taylor, President of UNITE HERE International Union Nine months have come and gone since the U. S. Senate passed historic immigration reform legislation with a large bipartisan majority. Since that time the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has sat on its hands except to cast one immigration-related vote: to eliminate funding for the […]
Posts May 1, 2015
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon and which cuts without wounding and enables the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posts April 11, 2016
“The basic rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are under attack across the United States. In the past two years almost 200 anti-LGBT bills have been introduced in over 30 states. Many of these bills have been defeated. Some passed but were vetoed. However, in 2016, three very dangerous pieces of legislation have […]
Posts March 23, 2017
SILVER SPRING, Maryland – Union, immigration and religious leaders are honoring D. Taylor, president of the UNITE HERE labor union, for his commitment to immigrant workers at a reception March 23 at the Friars Club in New York. The fundraising event will benefit the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., known as CLINIC. “D Taylor represents […]
Posts March 22, 2023
March 25, 2023, is the 112th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York’s Greenwich Village. This tragedy took the lives of 146 young immigrant garment workers and galvanized a reform movement to raise standards for workers.
Posts March 22, 2024
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City’s’s Greenwich Village on March 25, 1911, was one of the worst workplace disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The fire took the lives of 146 young immigrant garment workers. It also galvanized a reform movement to raise standards for workers.
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