Posts April 20, 2015
We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished in Boston. The Boston Globe says, “if you’re a member of Unite Here Local 26, the union that covers more than half of the hotel workers in Boston and Cambridge, the pay and benefits are striking: Entry-level salaries at $19 per hour; family health care for $12 per week; […]
Posts February 18, 2005
San Francisco. On Valentine’s Day, hundreds of Local 2 members hit the streets for a picket line at the St. Francis Hotel. The Valentine’s Day action was the first picket line since the 60-day cooling off period ended and was intended to ask hotel guests to honor the boycott of the 14 Multi-Employer Group hotels […]
Posts August 25, 2005
San Francisco, CA–The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously this week to pass the historic Sweatfree San Francisco Ordinance, which will ensure that the hundreds of millions of city tax dollars spent on purchasing every year will be used to support fair and just labor practices. A coalition of nearly 60 community groups, including […]
Posts April 11, 2011
Baltimore, MD–More than 60 campus dining workers at Stevenson University have won union representation, choosing to join UNITE HERE Local 7. Campus dining workers at the Maryland liberal arts university are employees of the multinational food service company Sodexo. The campus dining workers at Stevenson won union representation with UNITE HERE Local 7 on Friday, […]
Posts May 19, 2011
Employees of the W Boston and the Back Bay Hotel have overwhelmingly voted to unionize, bringing the number of organized workers at Boston hotels to about 4,000, roughly 60 percent of all full-service hotel workers. Around 200 housekeepers, bellhops, restaurant staff, valets, and maintenance workers at the two hotels are now members of UNITE HERE […]
Posts August 25, 2011
The strike at the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park has lasted more than two weeks, with 60 waiters, cooks and dishwashers picketing, chanting and drumming outside day after day. But now the strikers are getting some long-awaited outside support. The National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that oversees union matters, plans to issue a […]
Posts September 1, 2011
Dozens of Manhattan College dining hall workers, joined by students and faculty, rallied across the street from the entrance to the college’s Bronx campus on September 1 to protest actions of the school’s new dining hall operator, Gourmet Dining, which has failed to rehire about 60 of the workers who previously staffed Manhattan College’s dining […]
Posts October 14, 2011
On October 10 Local 26 members at dining halls at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA ratified a new contract with Aramark that offers some of the same groundbreaking gains won by workers at Harvard dining halls last month. The new contract language offers new and improved health care and wage increases of $2.60 an hour […]
Posts April 22, 2020
Sorry, Mr. President, we are not taking the bait! Your latest executive order is a phony deal. You need to stop using immigrants as a foil yet again to distract the American people. This is exactly what you are doing with his latest executive order halting immigration to America for 60 days. Your own Immigration […]
Posts October 19, 2005
Chicago, IL–HMS Host workers at one of the nation’s largest and busiest airports, O’Hare International Airport, will picket this week to inform the public about the poverty wages and poor benefits they receive as employees. "I’m trying to save enough money to bring my four-year-old son from Ecuador to live with me," says Ambar Vera, […]