Press Releases July 22, 2016
Washington, D.C. – Union Plus recently awarded $150,000 in scholarships to 104 students representing 32 unions, including one winner representing UNITE HERE. This year’s group of scholarship recipients includes university, college, and trade or technical school students from 32 states. The UNITE HERE winner is: Vincent Lee of New York. Lee, whose father, Yew Lee, […]
Press Releases November 29, 2017
Washington, DC – With the first confirmation hearing for former Eli Lilly executive Alex Azar underway now, the union that has been tackling big pharma at the state level, and winning new consumer protections against prescription drug price gouging, has laid out the most pressing questions that Azar must answer to reconcile what some say is a disqualifying conflict of […]
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 […]
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 October 14, 2016
Las Vegas, NV – This month, the final Presidential Debate will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Culinary Union, the largest affiliate of UNITE HERE, one of the strongest political forces in the state will be mobilizing workers and immigrant voters to elect politicians who will fight for our families. Earlier this year, Culinary […]
Press Releases December 8, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. textile industry and the labor union UNITE HERE urged the House and Senate to reject the Haiti and AGOA provisions contained in H.R. 6406. Elements of Congress have been pushing to attach these provisions to tax and trade legislation in this week’s lame duck session of Congress. Industry leaders and […]
Press Releases November 9, 2016
Culinary Union Helps Elect first Latina to US Senate, First Latino to House for Nevada Las Vegas, NV – The 270,000 members of UNITE HERE and their hundreds of thousands of family members are standing strong today after their historic efforts to increase Latino voter turnout in the 2016 election. The union that helped Clinton […]
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 […]
Press Releases March 10, 2009
NEW YORK, NY—In an excoriating decision against Cintas, Judge William H. Pauley of the Southern District of New York Court dismissed all claims—federal and state—of Cintas’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit against UNITE HERE, the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters, and the Change to Win coalition. Calling the company’s complaint “sprawling” and “larded,” […]
Press Releases June 3, 2011
Las Vegas, NV–Fired Latino workers from Station Casinos led members of the Culinary and Bartenders unions in the city’s largest civil disobedience in over a decade to protest the company’s treatment and firing of Latino workers yesterday evening. The large protest came as Station Casinos completes the final stages of its bankruptcy restructuring. Over 1000 […]