Press Releases April 24, 2019
Chicago, IL – Today, standing in front of a banner that reads, “Amtrak: Get Back on Track, Don’t Derail America,” a coalition of labor and major federal political leaders rallied at Chicago’s Union Station demanding that Amtrak invest in and build America’s vital rail infrastructure—not dismantle it. “America is a grand nation deserving of a […]
Pages January 6, 2022
UNITE HERE is a labour union that represents over 300,000 members working in the hotel, gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, distribution, laundry, transportation, and airport industries in North America. UNITE HERE represents over 18,000 hotel and hospitality workers across six locals in Canada. Our membership is diverse. We are predominantly women and people of colour, […]
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, 2011
Compass/Chartwells food service workers at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, made great gains in ratifying a new union contract. Demonstrating overwhelming support, Chartwells workers voted to ratify the new contract by 100%. In a strong show of interest, more than 80% of the total Chartwells workforce throughout the SFU campus turned out for the […]
Posts March 12, 2013
La Verne, CA – Last week, Bon Appetit workers at the University of La Verne won union recognition with UNITE HERE Local 11, the union of hospitality and food service workers in the greater Los Angeles area. Cook Prince Jones remarks, “This victory feels like more than a victory to me, it feels like an […]
Industries May 17, 2014
Our members are food service workers in corporate cafeterias, airports, universities, public school districts, sports stadiums, event centers, amusement parks, cultural institutions, and national parks, as well as tens of thousands of restaurant workers inside hotels and casinos.
Posts July 1, 2013
Every day for two weeks, parents and school staff have fasted and rallied on the steps of Governor Tom Corbett’s Philadelphia office, calling for funding that would allow the city’s school district to restore student safety staff to its lunchrooms, hallways and schoolyards. On July 1, on the heels of a newly approved Pennsylvania budget […]
Posts August 6, 2013
The School District of Philadelphia has recalled hundreds of employees, but has yet to signal student safety as a top priority this fall. None of the 1,202 student safety staff who were laid off in June have been recalled to date. Today, a coalition of parents, students, clergy, and SDP workers announced that on August […]
Press Releases January 27, 2020
Follow #FastForOurFamilies all week on Twitter and Instagram. MIAMI – Today, catering workers serving American Airlines launched a “Fast For Our Families” that will run through Saturday. The nine fasters, who are airline catering workers from Miami, New York, San Francisco and Minneapolis were joined in solidarity by National Football Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, […]
Press Releases February 1, 2020
MIAMI—Airline Catering workers who will prepare the food and drink for American Airlines passengers departing Miami following Super Bowl LIV ended their historic 6-day fast on Saturday morning with a breaking of the bread ceremony outside MIA Airport. The workers have been fasting since Monday to call attention to poverty wages and unaffordable health care […]