Press Releases March 25, 2010
Washington, DC – Today, hotel workers told Columbia Sussex Corporation that they are tired of paying for the company’s debt and want a fair process to organize a union at rallies around the country, and they called on customers to boycott 8 hotels owned by the company, according to UNITE HERE, the hotel workers union. […]
Posts February 24, 2005
Gelmart Industries, Inc., which is headquartered in New York City and owns Gelmart Industries Philippines, is a privately-owned company that specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of intimate apparel for Wal-Mart, K-mart, Jockey, Frederick’s of Hollywood, and Gelmart’s own labels like Lady Marlene. The working conditions at one Gelmart subcontractor included: working 13-hour shifts, and […]
Posts March 1, 2011
On Tuesday, March 1, cafeteria workers at Bronx Community College who are fighting to keep their jobs rallied with fellow members of UNITE HERE Local 100. The College is changing food service contractors to an as-yet unannounced new company, and workers have received no assurances that their employment will continue. The nine cafeteria workers have […]
Posts January 27, 2012
School lunch was all over the national news this week and the lunchroom workers from UNITE HERE Local 1 in Chicago were right in the middle of it. After doing hundreds of surveys about school food with members, UNITE HERE Local 1 held a rally on January 24 to release a report, “Feeding Chicago’s Kids […]
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 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 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 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 May 25, 2005
Kahuku, HI -" Turtle Bay workers walked off the job early Saturday morning to protest abusive working conditions for housekeepers and other health and safety issues for laundry and Palm Terrace restaurant workers. At around 3AM, the union delivered a letter to the manager on duty stating that workers were going on strike until 11:59 […]