Press Releases October 5, 2022
San Francisco, Calif. – A thousand fast-food workers at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) have won a $5 per hour raise and free family health care after shutting down most of the airport’s food and beverage outlets during a three-day strike. The workers, members of the hospitality workers’ union UNITE HERE Local 2, ratified their new […]
Press Releases April 13, 2023
Washington, DC – Today hundreds of Compass food workers picketed their employer at the cafeteria they operate at the World Bank, calling for new union contracts for Compass workers who serve the international financial institution. Photos and video available here. UNITE HERE Local 23 recently released the results of a survey of 76% (108 out […]
Press Releases May 4, 2017
NEW HAVEN — Eight graduate teachers at Yale University have gone over a week without eating or drinking anything except water. Fasters and their allies observed the milestone with a vigil at the home of Yale President Peter Salovey. At the Tuesday evening vigil, the fasters knocked on the door of the president’s mansion while […]
Press Releases January 28, 2015
Today, student activists, including chapters of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), are demanding meetings with Au Bon Pain outlet managers on their campuses to discuss the company’s response to union organizing at Philadelphia Airport. Au Bon Pain has refused to give its employees at the Philadelphia Airport a fair process to organize a union. Some […]
Posts October 24, 2011
UNITE HERE is excited to be an official partner of the first national Food Day. Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. We’ll be celebrating Food Day by hosting and participating in events on college campuses across the […]
Press Releases February 17, 2010
ANAHEIM – Eight hunger strikers ended their fast Tuesday evening after seven days without food. In an 700-person march and ceremony that shut down Disneyland Drive, workers "passed the fast" on to five hotel workers who will carry the hunger strike to Walt Disney Corporate headquarters in Burbank. "Workers have engaged in this fast to […]
Press Releases August 16, 2007
Oakland—Backed by large piles of laundry, community and labor supporters, today, joined Prudential Overall Supply workers at a rally outside city hall, regarding a possible interruption of city laundry service. The workers came to Oakland from the South Bay seeking the city’s assistance to avoid an unfair labor practices strike at multiple Prudential facilities. “I […]
Press Releases August 20, 2007
Oakland—Backed by large piles of laundry, community and labor supporters, today, joined Prudential Overall Supply workers at a rally outside city hall, regarding a possible interruption of city laundry service. The workers came to Oakland from the South Bay seeking the city’s assistance to avoid an unfair labor practices strike at multiple Prudential facilities. “I […]
Press Releases April 20, 2011
Los Angeles, CA – More than 140 campus dining workers at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) have won union representation, choosing to join UNITE HERE Local 11. Campus dining workers at LMU, the largest Catholic university on the West Coast, are employees of the multinational food service company Sodexo. After a hard-fought campaign, the campus dining […]
Press Releases May 15, 2015
As the Senate prepares to vote on Trade Promotion Authority (commonly known as Fast Track) after its unexpected failure to clear a procedural hurdle in the U.S Senate on Tuesday, the leaders of UNITE HERE, Feminist Majority, the National Organization for Women and LGBT organization Pride At Work (see letter and fact sheet) called on […]