Posts September 2, 2010
The AFL-CIO has produced an ad for Labor Day that features several UNITE HERE Local 1 members from the Ritz Carlton in Chicago. The ad is set to air during major league baseball games on Sunday and Monday, the Sunday NASCAR Pep Boys Auto 500 race, and the Monday night opener of NCAA football.
Press Releases June 5, 2019
NEW YORK – Airline food workers in 21 cities across the country will vote in the next two weeks whether to strike if and when released by the National Mediation Board. The workers prepare, pack, and deliver food and drink served on American Airline, Delta, and United flights. They are members of UNITE HERE and […]
Press Releases November 4, 2015
[New York, NY] This week, hotel housekeepers affiliated with UNITE HERE, a union representing 270,000 workers across the U.S. and Canada, will be holding protests in more than 20 cities across North America, spotlighting safety concerns and poor wages faced by many women who clean hotel rooms. These actions are being held in conjunction with […]
Press Releases July 5, 2017
NEW YORK, NY—UNITE HERE, the national union representing hospitality workers, today unveiled a significant ad buy urging Senator Dean Heller to stand firm in his opposition to the current Senate version of Trumpcare. “The Republican Senate Trumpcare bill would devastate our country’s healthcare system, particularly for our nation’s most vulnerable and working class families,” said […]
Posts December 5, 2011
POMONA – Unprovoked by any federal agency, Pomona College fired today 16 dining hall workers who did not re-verify their eligibility to work. Several of those terminated had worked at Pomona College for 10 to 20 years. In protest, about 200 students, workers, alumni and community members descended on Frary Dining Hall, demanding the right […]
Posts March 21, 2013
AP – Throngs of workers blocked traffic on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday in a demonstration against the Cosmopolitan casino that ended with the arrest of nearly 100 protesters. Tourists watched from an overpass across Las Vegas Boulevard as police led workers wearing red union shirts one-by-one into a white police bus. Police arrested 98 […]
Press Releases April 20, 2005
On Wednesday, April 20, elected, community, labor, and religious leaders will join hundreds of higher education workers at 4 PM at Columbia University, [116th St./Broadway], for a massive rally demanding justice for higher education workers. This rally brings together University and College workers at every level demanding accessible, quality higher education for all. Graduate employees […]
Press Releases November 18, 2010
TORONTO, ON – On Thursday, November 18, a group of over 20 women leaders walked into a housekeeping briefing meeting demanding the hotel put a stop to its “Make a Green Choice.” Carrying mops and cleaning supplies, the women offered to share in the pain that comes from arduous housekeeping work, by helping them clean […]
Press Releases December 2, 2011
POMONA – Unprovoked by any federal agency, Pomona College fired today 16 dining hall workers who did not re-verify their eligibility to work. Several of those terminated had worked at Pomona College for 10 to 20 years. In protest, about 200 students, workers, alumni and community members descended on Frary Dining Hall, demanding the right […]
Press Releases September 29, 2004
Escalating a two-year battle to win job security language with the absentee owners of Turtle Bay Resort, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, the AFL-CIO has added the plush hotel and golf destination to its national boycott list. The action comes at the request of UNITE HERE Hospitality Industry President John Wilhelm and the union’s […]