Press Releases July 1, 2016
Nearly a thousand cooks, housekeepers, bellmen and servers from the Trump Taj Mahal walked off the job on Friday ahead of the industry’s biggest holiday weekend to fight for decent wages and the future of their middle-class livelihoods.
Pages June 19, 2014
The UNITE HERE Global Vision Around the world, UNITE HERE’s Global Campaigns Department partners with unions and social justice movements to understand and respond to the rapidly shifting realities of today’s global economy. Our members direct this global vision through their knowledge and courage. Many workers in our industries have fled repression or poverty in their […]
Posts January 3, 2012
Hundreds of Aramark’s Citizens Bank Park employees, and their supporters from New York to Baltimore, rallied in support of better wages and access to healthcare benefits following the 2012 NHL Winter Classic on January 2. Since voting down the company’s latest contract offer in September, beer vendors, concessions stand attendants, and the other stadium employees […]
Press Releases July 25, 2016
(Philadelphia, PA, NJ) – Over a dozen striking workers from the Trump Taj Mahal traveled to Philadelphia to address the DNC’s labor caucus to condemn Donald Trump ally and corporate raider, Carl Icahn. “I’m here today, because Carl Icahn, the man Donald Trump thinks should be running the US economy has taken middle class jobs […]
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 […]
Press Releases January 26, 2011
LOS ANGELES – Workers from the Wilshire Hotel are on strike today, after hotel owner Leo Lee slashed workers’ wages and benefits. For example, Lee cut wages of workers earning about $10 an hour to the state’s minimum wage of $8 an hour, while others earning about $13.70 were cut to about $10 an hour. […]
Press Releases October 29, 2009
Chicago, Ill. — Yesterday, workers at five area hotels, including the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Westin Michigan Avenue, W Lakeshore, W Chicago-City Center, and Tremont Hotel, voted to authorize a strike by an 89% majority, in a major escalation of a citywide labor dispute among Chicago’s downtown hotels. The vote authorizes the rank-and-file bargaining […]
Press Releases July 13, 2016
Striking casino workers joined by Hedge Clippers and Take on Wall Street protest Trump associate’s brand of profiteering NEW YORK – Today, Trump Taj Mahal casino workers who went on strike July 1 to save good middle-class jobs are taking their protests from the Atlantic City Boardwalk to the office doorstep of casino owner, corporate […]
Press Releases March 7, 2017
“President Trump and the Republican Party ran on a promise to immediately repeal the ‘broken’ Affordable Care Act and replace it with something ‘great.’ As recently as January, Trump vowed they had a healthcare overhaul plan for ‘insurance for everybody’ that would be ‘much less expensive and much better.’ “Instead, what was unveiled by House […]
Press Releases January 4, 2019
Washington, DC – Five hundred UNITE HERE represented federal building cafeteria workers have been out on furlough since before Christmas, and without intervention will lose backpay entitled to other furloughed employees, and lapse of their healthcare coverage effective as early as February 1st. These workers are subcontracted by the federal government, and make under $32,000 […]