Posts September 16, 2015
Winner Honored for Achievement and Union Values Union Plus recently awarded $150,000 in scholarships to 106 students representing 36 unions, including one winner representing UNITE HERE, in the 2015 Union Plus Scholarship Program. In this 24th year of the program, more than 5,000 applications were received from union members, their spouses and their dependent children […]
Posts November 2, 2009
After months of working with no contract and facing the prospect of losing the free family health benefits that they’d been receiving for years, the cafeteria workers at Hunter College finally won a collective bargaining agreement from AVI Foodsystems. This contract — ratified unanimously on October 27 — includes free family health benefits, a significant […]
Press Releases March 10, 2016
WHAT: Protest at Trump rally with Trump hotel workers seeking union contract WHEN and WHERE: Friday, March 11, 2016: 3:30pm WHERE: Chicago, IL – UIC Pavilion, 525 S Racine Ave WHO: Trump Las Vegas hotel employees, who are members of the Trump Hotel Negotiating Committee, joined by members of UNITE HERE Local 1 in Chicago, […]
Press Releases June 2, 2015
EAST CHICAGO, IN – The union for workers in gaming, hotels, and food service industries, UNITE HERE, has launched a new website intended as a resource for customers of Northwest Indiana casinos who need to know whether labor disputes could affect their plans in the area. The website, www.indianagamingalert.org, will be regularly updated with information […]
Press Releases March 4, 2016
On March 4, Trump hotel workers demonstrated at a Trump campaign rally in New Orleans, after Mr. Trump failed to show at contract negotiations organized by employees of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
Press Releases September 14, 2015
Vancouver, BC – The offshore tax haven practices of the owners of one of Canada’s largest real estate developers and landlord to several government agencies should be the subject of an immediate review, along with other corporations using similar tax havens, according to national tax watchdog, Canadians for Tax Fairness. The call follows the release […]
Press Releases November 20, 2015
Las Vegas, NV – The Culinary Union was chartered on November 1, 1935 and this year marks the 80th anniversary of the organization that has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Nevada hospitality workers and their families with union wages and benefits. In eight decades, the Culinary Union has become an essential economic […]
Posts July 14, 2014
Concessions workers welcomed their special guest, Houston Mayor Annise Parker, and pledged to work together to make changes on the job and in the city.
Posts June 22, 2010
With a hot new pitcher on the mound and a freshly-approved contract in hand, members of UNITE HERE Local 25 are enthusiastically cheering on the Nationals. Workers at the Nationals Stadium in Washington, DC, overwhelmingly approved a new contract agreement on June 21. "It’s a great contract," said UNITE HERE Local 25 Executive Secretary-Treasurer John […]
Posts August 25, 2005
On Wednesday, August 10, 620 workers were fired by the airline caterer Gate Gourmet in a dispute provoked by the company, whose aim was to replace union members with cheap labor. In response, baggage handlers at Heathrow — members of the same union as the Gate Gourmet workers who had just lost their jobs — […]