Press Releases January 31, 2018
New York, NY – Effective January 1st, 2018, all eligible UNITE HERE workers with benefits through UNITE HERE HEALTH now have inclusive transgender health benefits, including coverage of gender confirmation surgery, hormone therapy, counseling services, and more. These benefits have already been available to all UNITE HERE union staff, and we are proud to announce […]
Press Releases June 24, 2019
NATIONWIDE—Workers who prepare, pack and deliver food and beverages served aboard flights for American, Delta, United and other airlines have voted overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing a strike when released by the National Mediation Board. It was the largest such vote ever to occur in the U.S. airline catering industry, with more than 11,000 workers […]
Press Releases August 30, 2007
(New York, NY) — A new study released on Monday, August 27, 2007 at PREMUS – the Sixth International Scientific Conference on Prevention of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders, held in Boston, highlights the differences in injury rates by gender, race/ethnicity or both. Dr. Susan Buchanan, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, presented the […]
Posts October 14, 2010
More than three months after union hotel contracts expired, hotel workers at the Hilton Hawaiian Village – Hilton’s largest hotel worldwide with over 3,600 rooms and 1,500 union workers – walked off the job, announcing a five-day strike protesting Hilton’s efforts to lock workers into cheap recession contracts. Outraged that Hilton finagled $180 million in […]
Posts June 30, 2006
Washington, DC-"During an exciting reception this Wednesday attended by dozens of high profile national organizations and community leaders, the Informed Meetings Exchange (INMEX) was launched to help advise meeting planners that want information on the labor situation at hotels in cities across North America. UNITE HERE has established INMEX to help organizations spend their hotel […]
Posts August 20, 2012
In an August 17 decision, Administrative Law Judge Clifford Anderson of the National Labor Relations Board found that Castlewood Country Club has maintained an illegal lockout since August 10, 2010. He recommended that the NLRB order Castlewood to reinstate the locked-out workers and pay them two years of back wages and benefits. "We’ve been saying […]
Press Releases November 18, 2015
[Chicago, IL] One year ago, President Obama reiterated his immigration enforcement priorities and announced an Executive Order that would have provided deportation relief for nearly five million undocumented workers in the U.S. By contrast, workers at Ruprecht Company, a meatpacking plant in Mundelein, IL, have faced arrests or firings after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) […]
Posts April 28, 2011
On April 27, airport workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 30 overwhelmingly ratified a new contract with their employer, HMS Host, the airport concessions industry’s largest company. The new contract raises standards for Airport workers through guaranteed wage increases of over $2.50/hour over the next five years. The deal also strengthens the workers’ retirement plan […]
Posts November 15, 2012
[Phoenix, AZ] Today, hundreds of election volunteers, members of UNITE HERE, and state legislators are holding a demonstration outside the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, where Arizona voters still await answers on the outcome of statewide races. Last week, the Arizona Secretary of State confirmed there are more than 450,000 uncounted votes in Maricopa County–one-third of […]
Pages June 30, 2021
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