Posts February 24, 2005
A major victory was won this month in the fight for hotel workers and their families to maintain free family health care coverage. The EC announced that effective immediately in all EC Hotels, the EC will discontinue the $10 weekly co-payment by hotel employees, and return to making contributions on all hours worked and paid […]
Posts February 24, 2005
Hotel workers protesting Elad Properties plan to convert most of the Plaza Hotel into luxury condominiums found an ally in Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The mayor has indicated his support of UNITE HERE’s fight against the conversion. Hundreds of people rallied at the Plaza on Thursday to show their support of the hotel workers. Read more […]
Posts March 4, 2005
Over 900 Plaza Hotel workers now have global allies in a fight to save their jobs from plans to raze the hotel and replace it with condominiums and retail stores. Last week, UNITE HERE Local 6 leaders met with the British union, Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), to solicit their help in reaching out […]
Posts March 4, 2005
Los Angeles. The boycott of the 8 Employers Council Hotels in Los Angeles continues to gain momentum. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced that they are pulling out all business from the Wilshire Grand Hotel. The LAUSD brings in more than $1 million worth of business annually to the Wilshire Grand. The California […]
Posts March 5, 2005
LOS ANGELES — Hotel workers score another victory in their fight for health care and wages, as President Bill Clinton honors boycott. Early this week, hotel workers were notified that President Bill Clinton will not be attending a lunch at the Century Plaza Hotel sponsored by the Association of Southern California Defense Counsels out of […]
Posts March 11, 2005
San Francisco. The boycott of the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group hotels continues to pick up steam as additional organizations and individuals have agreed to support the citywide boycott and move their business elsewhere. Local 2 and their allies are continuing the pressure with more street actions scheduled. On Monday, hundreds of people walked a picket […]
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 March 22, 2005
94th Anniversary of Workplace Disaster March 24, 2005, Noon -" 1 p.m. Each year, UNITE HERE commemorates the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the 1911 industrial fire that killed 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women. This tragedy was a turning point for the efforts to win safe workplaces and union rights for garment workers, and […]
Posts March 25, 2005
San Francisco. The Multi-Employer Group has been getting little relief as San Francisco hotel workers and supporters keep taking it to the streets with more picket lines. Hotel guests were greeted with a four-hour picket line at the Fairmont Hotel last Friday. And the actions keep getting longer and longer. This Thursday, another picket line […]
Posts April 2, 2005
Another large group has pulled their business out of a boycotted San Francisco Multi-Employer Group hotel. The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association, whose members represent injured workers, has moved its June conference out of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. One thousand members were expected to attend. Local 2 members and supporters continue to turn out in full […]