Press Releases April 14, 2010
Houston, Texas–Nearly 50 hotel housekeepers from across the country are traveling to Houston this week to participate in OSHA’s National Action Summit for Latino Worker Health and Safety, a national conference sponsored by OSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Housekeepers are participating in the Summit to bring visibility to the high […]
Press Releases September 16, 2021
NEW YORK – Hotel housekeepers in eight cities across the U.S. and Canada will mobilize to protest job cuts at Hilton hotels throughout International Housekeeping Week (Sept. 13-19). With unemployment benefits expired, housekeepers say that Hilton has reduced cleaning services in order to avoid putting housekeepers back on the job. Overwhelmingly women of color, housekeepers […]
Press Releases November 8, 2022
Hospitality Union UNITE HERE leads massive field program talking to working-class voters about their economic concerns and protecting our rights against Trump Republicans. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Over the course of eight months, 1,200 canvassers working full-time with the hospitality union UNITE HERE will have knocked on 2.7 million doors in the country’s most high-profile […]
Press Releases September 17, 2010
Pleasanton, CA – The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against Castlewood Country Club for engaging in unfair labor practices, “interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in Section 7 of the (National Labor Relations) Act,” and “failing and refusing to bargain collectively and in good faith.” […]
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 […]
Posts June 17, 2013
Fasters encamp on steps of Governor’s Philadelphia office; call for Commonwealth and City act. A group of Philadelphia public school parents and lunchroom staff today launched a fast for safe schools. The elimination of more than 1,200 student safety staff from schools across the district, including those on the federal “persistently dangerous” schools list, places […]
Posts April 12, 2011
Indianapolis, IN – Following months of investigation, the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (IOSHA) has issued the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis and its subcontractor Hospitality Staffing Solutions (HSS) safety orders with proposed fines totaling more than $50,000 between both companies. The safety orders are the result of investigations following injury complaints lodged by Hyatt housekeepers […]
Press Releases July 5, 2017
NEW YORK, NY—UNITE HERE, the national union representing hospitality workers, today unveiled a significant ad buy urging Senator Dean Heller to stand firm in his opposition to the current Senate version of Trumpcare. “The Republican Senate Trumpcare bill would devastate our country’s healthcare system, particularly for our nation’s most vulnerable and working class families,” said […]
Press Releases 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 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, […]