Pages July 21, 2015
As our nation’s leaders debate reauthorization of the FAA, a growing number of labor unions are weighing in to call on Congress to allow airports to increase the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) according to their local infrastructure needs. So far, leaders from the following labor councils and federations have issued statements in support of airports […]
Posts March 28, 2014
Overwhelming Vote Now Makes Strikes Possible At Any Downtown Casino Several thousand members of UNITE HERE Local 226 and 165—the Culinary and Bartenders unions—voted Thursday to authorize a strike against ten downtown Las Vegas casinos. The 99% "yes" vote comes just five weeks after the unions gave notice to terminate contract extensions. The unions […]
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 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 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 August 17, 2013
Workers strike to end second-class wages, benefits, heavy workloads Sheraton Vancouver Airport workers held a one-day strike on Saturday, August 17, to protest fourteen months of management delays and stalled negotiations. This is the first strike by hotel workers in the Vancouver area in 13 years. Sheraton workers, represented by UNITE HERE Local 40, are […]
Posts June 17, 2013
Fasters encamp on steps of Governor’s Philadelphia office; call for Commonwealth and City act. A group of Philadelphia public school parents and lunchroom staff today launched a fast for safe schools. The elimination of more than 1,200 student safety staff from schools across the district, including those on the federal “persistently dangerous” schools list, places […]
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