Pages August 14, 2017
The bill’s author is Senator Dr. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina). Sponsors: For more information: “Drugmakers Cancel Price Hikes After California Law Takes Effect,” Bloomberg, July 10, 2018 “Pharma ducks Obamacare debate and fights transparency. And yet it wants our trust,” Sacramento Bee, July 24, 2017 “Shining a light on prescription drug pricing,” Los Angeles Times, […]
Press Releases March 24, 2011
Las Vegas, NV–Today, fired Latino workers from Station Casinos will lead members of the Culinary and Bartenders unions and other supporters in a two-mile march from the Culinary Union to Palace Station, where approximately 100 demonstrators will blockade a street in an act of non-violent civil disobedience to protest the company’s treatment of Latino workers. […]
Press Releases June 26, 2015
This morning, over one hundred plant employees of the Mundelein-based Ruprecht Company, a privately-held meat processor and food manufacturer, walked off the job on strike in response to threats of a pending immigration audit by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A press conference with striking workers will be held outside of Chicago’s U.S. Immigration […]
Press Releases March 28, 2018
Las Vegas, NV – Last week, the Regional Director for Region 27 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certified the Culinary Union officially as the bargaining agent at Green Valley Ranch. This comes after a federal officer issued a report in February 2018 calling for Station Casinos’ objections to a recent union election of […]
Press Releases January 29, 2020
NEW YORK, NY—Today UNITE HERE hospitality workers union condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump Administration’s new racist wealth test for immigrants seeking legal status in the U.S. UNITE HERE General Vice President for Immigration, Diversity and Civil Rights Enrique Fernández issued the following statement: “By allowing new policy denying green cards to […]
Press Releases June 30, 2011
Rabbis and other faith leaders have released a report today, pledging to treat a number of Hyatt Hotels as "not kosher." Open the Gates of Justice: A Clergy Report on Working Conditions at Hyatt Hotels describes a range of practice by Hyatt that clergy found "contrary to the religious traditions we uphold." This report is […]
Press Releases May 5, 2020
Click here for a PDF of the guidelines: UNITE HERE Health & Sanitation Guidelines for Gaming Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic LAS VEGAS—Along with all other non-essential business, all casinos in the United States have been closed since March in an attempt to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as some states prepare […]
Posts March 5, 2008
Low-Wage Workers Call on Goldman to Spread the Wealth to Cafeteria Workers Amid the bustle of the financial district, hundreds of cafeteria workers employed by Aramark at many of Wall Street’s largest investment banks rallied on March 5 and demanded that Ararmark owner and client Goldman Sachs take action to lift the city’s corporate cafeteria […]
Press Releases June 30, 2005
In August 2004, the former Norwalk Clarion Hotel was sold to a Seattle based company, The Hotel Group (THG), for $10 million. THG is a small Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) that “manages hotels for a select group of client partners while acquiring and re-developing properties”. Currently, they claim to own and/or manage 24 small […]
Press Releases December 15, 2015
LAS VEGAS, NV – The Trump International Hotel Las Vegas has filed objections to a vote held by their employees, 9 days after a majority of workers at the hotel have voted “YES” to be represented by the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and the Bartenders Union Local 165 of UNITE HERE. The Trump Hotel […]