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 August 23, 2018
DENVER – Today, low wage workers at Denver International Airport began collecting signatures to place the Denver Airport Minimum Wage Initiative on the May 2019 Denver citywide ballot. The ballot measure would raise the minimum wage for workers at DIA to $15 by 2021. “I thought working for a big company like United at the […]