Press Releases June 3, 2010
TORONTO–Workers at 32 Toronto and area hotels have overwhelmingly given strike authorization to stop declining working conditions and other draconian measures they say are plunging them into precarious work and reducing the quality of service to hotel guests. With most hotel contracts having expired by February 2010, the votes authorizing strike action by upwards to […]
Press Releases September 2, 2015
Las Vegas, NV—Today members of the UNITE HERE’s Culinary Workers Union Local 226 attended the Nevada Gaming Control Board meeting and called on the state’s gaming regulators to investigate Deutsche Bank’s suitability to own Nevada casinos. A Deutsche Bank subsidiary owns 25% of Station Casinos LLC and its 19 casinos in Nevada. Despite having the […]
Press Releases January 10, 2017
Washington—Today the Alliance to Fight the 40, a broad-based coalition committed to repealing the 40 percent tax on employer-sponsored health benefits – the so-called “Cadillac Tax” – applauded Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), for their bipartisan, bicameral reintroduction of legislation to protect the […]
Press Releases December 21, 2017
CHICAGO, IL— O’Hare Airport restaurant workers employed by HMSHost International are on strike. Workers at some food service outlets walked off the job in an effort to gain affordable, quality healthcare as a part of a new union contract. Striking workers, who are Starbucks baristas, servers, cooks, and other restaurant workers, are picketing HMSHost outside […]
Press Releases November 8, 2017
Richmond, VA – Despite the Pharmaceutical industry working with the Republican Attorney General’s Association, or RAGA, to buy the Virginia Attorney General’s seat, the will of voters has again thwarted Big Pharma with John Adams’ defeat. “Big Pharma poured $1,789,755 in to RAGA this cycle, and even after they spent a quarter million of that […]
Press Releases June 20, 2018
New York, NY – Today, President D. Taylor and the Executive Committee of UNITE HERE International Union unanimously adopted the following statement: Just when we think the Trump administration cannot stoop any lower in its ongoing determination to demonize immigrants, it came to light that the administration has been jailing children as leverage for the […]
Posts February 13, 2012
On February 3, US District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess granted a 10(J) preliminary injunction as authorized under the National Labor Relations Act, ordering the Sheraton Hotel in Anchorage to recognize and bargain with UNITE HERE Local 878. This order was wide-reaching and included many significant issues for the workers at the hotel, which is […]
Posts December 4, 2006
San Jose, CA-"A new UNITE HERE report exposes low wages and poor working conditions for food service workers who work in cafeterias at high tech and biotech companies in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. These highly profitable companies provide lavish cafeteria services for their own staff, but subcontract the work to firms who pay […]
Posts October 27, 2016
Early in the morning of October 25th the Harvard University dining hall workers reached a tentative agreement with the university administration. The victory came after the dining service workers struck for twenty-one days. Workers picketed, marched, rallied and took arrests in acts of civil disobedience. The strike came to a close after a massive student […]
Press Releases February 26, 2007
What: Contracted Cafeteria Workers from the Bay area Rally near Broadcom San Jose Date/Time: February 28, 2007 at 4:30 PM Location: 3151 Zanker Road, San Jose Who: Café workers from High-Tech and Biotech Campuses in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, politicians, and UNITE HERE! presidents Bruce Raynor and John Wilhelm Cafeteria workers who work […]