Press Releases April 10, 2007
ORLANDO, FL, Apr. 10 – What does a Disney Cast Member do once all the visitors have left the Magic Kingdom? She hangs up her costume, returns to her apartment, and worries about how she is going to support her kids on wages that do not keep up with the rising cost of health insurance […]
Press Releases March 11, 2005
Press Conference at Madison Square Garden, Friday, March 11, 12 noon WHAT: Madison Square Garden workers speak out about Cablevision’s cutoff of their health insurance and other problems at MSG. Launch website www.FightattheGarden.info to publicize their fight vs. Cablevision. WHEN: Friday March 11, 12 noon WHERE: 7th Ave. and 31st St. in front of Madison […]
Press Releases January 8, 2020
Livestream: www.Facebook.com/Culinary226 Follow along on Twitter: @Culinary226 & @UNITEHERE WHAT: Town Halls with union members and Senator Amy Klobuchar, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Tom Steyer to discuss issues important to working people in the 2020 U.S. presidential race. Candidates will also tour the Culinary Health Center while they are in Las Vegas. WHO: Hundreds of UNITE HERE Culinary Workers Union Local […]
Press Releases June 14, 2021
NEW YORK – The hotel industry’s plan to end daily housekeeping would permanently slash the U.S. housekeeping workforce by up to 39 percent and cost housekeepers up to 180,917 jobs and $4.8 billion in annual lost wages, according to a report released by UNITE HERE, the hotel workers’ union. Hotel executives’ unprecedented move to end […]
Press Releases October 9, 2017
Sacramento, CA – Today California Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 17 into law, cementing the most robust state level reforms on the pharmaceutical industry to date. This law, which was sponsored by UNITE HERE International Union, provides transparency on prescription drug prices. The California bill comes just months after another major healthcare win 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 October 4, 2016
Dozens of immigrant women and their allies rallied today at Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC. They demand equality, respect and an end to sexual harassment at DCA. A survey conducted by UNITE HERE during June 2016 of 94 food and retail workers raises concerns about the treatment of immigrant women at Reagan National […]
Press Releases January 9, 2018
Washington, DC – Today, the top UNITE HERE union leader called on members of the Senate Finance Committee to be tough on Trump nominee Alex Azar and call him to task on his long history of price gouging while Azar helped run Pharma giant Eli Lilly. “The only thing Alex Azar has a proven record […]
Press Releases November 2, 2009
San Francisco’s hotel workers union, UNITE HERE Local 2, made an attempt today to avert a strike by putting forth a low-cost proposal to the Hilton Corporation. Under the union’s one-year proposal, the hotel company’s labor costs would rise by less than 2%. Since August, San Francisco hotel workers have been negotiating for a new […]
Press Releases December 2, 2023
DETROIT – Union members with the Detroit Casino Council have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract with MGM Grand Detroit after 47 days on strike. The unions will suspend the strike effective immediately. The five-year agreement covering 1700 employees includes the largest wage increases ever for MGM Grand Detroit workers (including an immediate 18% […]