Press Releases November 16, 2021
Workers at HelloFresh have alerted government agencies and are calling for investigations of higher-than-average injury rates at America’s #1 meal kit company’s Richmond CA and Aurora CO factories. As online food ordering exploded during COVID, HelloFresh doubled its U.S. revenues in 2020 – but the workers who prep, assemble, and ship these meal kits say […]
Press Releases June 23, 2011
ANAHEIM – UNITE HERE Local 11 and the Anaheim Hilton hotel reached a tentative contract agreement this week that includes continued, affordable family healthcare and raises for the some 700 hotel workers. "We are very happy to have settled such a great contract," said Adrianna de Martinez, an Anaheim Hilton housekeeper. "We are grateful to […]
Press Releases November 18, 2011
Community Leaders Converge on Hyatt Regency Santa Clara in Support Where: Front Entrance; Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, 5101 Great America Parkway When: Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, 8:00a.m. Santa Clara, Calif. Today, two former Hyatt housekeepers, Martha and Lorena Reyes are filing a retaliation charge against the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara with the federal agency, Equal […]
Press Releases November 20, 2014
“We are a union of immigrants and people of color—an organization of 270,000 workers in the hospitality industry and one of the largest organizations in this country representing immigrants.” “Today, President Obama has shown great courage in issuing this executive order on immigration. For millions of undocumented immigrants living in the shadows, this means a […]
Press Releases August 3, 2016
“How petty. I would never have thought Carl Icahn was so one-dimensional. The great deal-maker would rather burn the Trump Taj Mahal down just so he can control the ashes. For a few million bucks he could have had labor peace and a content workforce, but instead he’d rather slam the door shut on these […]
Press Releases March 7, 2017
“President Trump and the Republican Party ran on a promise to immediately repeal the ‘broken’ Affordable Care Act and replace it with something ‘great.’ As recently as January, Trump vowed they had a healthcare overhaul plan for ‘insurance for everybody’ that would be ‘much less expensive and much better.’ “Instead, what was unveiled by House […]
Press Releases March 13, 2014
(Atlantic City, NJ) Revel Casino workers took a first step towards joining UNITE HERE Local 54 today as they delivered a petition to Revel’s President demanding job security and a fair process to form a union. “I’ve worked at Revel since the beginning, and this is the most chaotic it has ever been. There are […]
Press Releases June 15, 2018
Toronto, Ontario – Members of UNITE HERE Local 75 ratified a new collective agreement with the Fairmont Royal York Hotel Friday that represents the strongest agreement in Toronto’s hospitality sector. The four-year contract makes Fairmont Royal York workers the highest paid hotel workers in the GTA by far and includes a 14.5% wage increase and […]
Press Releases September 28, 2007
Philadelphia – UNITE HERE, the union representing cafeteria workers in the Philadelphia School District, and SEIU, the union representing janitorial workers in the Philadelphia School District, released an analysis today illustrating Aramark’s mismanagement of the Philadelphia Schools’ full-service school cafeterias and called for an independent audit of the circumstances surrounding the monitoring of the contract. […]
Posts March 1, 2013
Graduates ready to put professional skills to use in revamped LAX eateries LOS ANGELES – Forty-eight cooks will graduate from the Los Angeles Airport Culinary Training Program on Friday with fresh skills that will benefit their careers and satisfy travelers’ palates. The program provides a much-needed culinary education that will ready the airport cooks for […]