Press Releases July 8, 2005
Toronto – UNITE HERE Canada filed a petition today with the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) requesting that they enact available mechanisms to limit a huge deluge of imports from China, which threatens Canada’s sixth largest manufacturing sector. This unprecedented action follows the release earlier this week of a report detailing the surge of imports […]
Press Releases August 17, 2004
(New York, NY) – On August 17, UNITE HERE will hang a giant banner from the headquarters at 275 Seventh Avenue. The sign reads “Save America. Defeat Bush.” “Bush says the economy has ‘turned the corner.’ Well, that’s not what our members throughout the country are saying,” explains UNITE HERE General President Bruce Raynor. “I […]
Press Releases March 31, 2025
Arlington, VA – With over 8,000 members who live throughout Virginia and work at universities, airports, hotels and casinos, UNITE HERE Locals 23 and Local 25 today announced their support for Abigail Spanberger for Virginia Governor. “Working people in Virginia deserve leaders who will make life more affordable and bring smart economic growth and good […]
Press Releases November 5, 2024
B-roll of canvassers in the field >> NATIONWIDE—Over 2,000 unionized hotel, food service, and gaming industry workers knocked on the doors of more than four million voters this election season, doing their part to help deliver the presidential election for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. As part of the country’s largest labor-led independent canvass, UNITE […]
Press Releases November 1, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY for Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 10:00aET WHO: 600 canvassers knocking doors in Philadelphia with hospitality workers’ union UNITE HERE and with For Our Future Gwen Mills, President, UNITE HERE International Union Becky Pringle, President, NEA Lee Saunders, President, AFSCME Randi Weingarten, President, AFT WHAT: Get Out the Vote rally and large-scale canvass […]
Press Releases October 8, 2024
Baltimore, MD — UNITE HERE Locals 7, 23, and 25 today announced that they have endorsed Angela Alsobrooks to be the next Senator from Maryland. Collectively, these unions represent some 8,000 Maryland voters who work in hotels, restaurants, casinos, airports, and food service. The union represents workers at numerous Maryland landmarks including BWI Airport, MGM […]
Press Releases May 30, 2024
Download b-roll here. Austin, TX – GM Culinary workers and supporters picketed their employer’s cafeteria at Meta Austin today to inform the public that GM Culinary does not have a contract with UNITE HERE. The same workers have called for a fair process that allows workers to decide to unionize without interference from their employer. […]
Press Releases January 4, 2023
Norfolk, VA – Over two dozen UNITE HERE members and activists are canvassing full-time to help push Aaron Rouse over the finish line on the January 10th special election. UNITE HERE Locals 25 and 23 represent over 3,500 workers in hotels, restaurants, airports, airlines, cafeterias, and parking garages in Virginia, as well as 8,000 Virginia voters. During the 2022 midterms, under the banner […]
Press Releases December 6, 2022
As part of the America Votes coalition knocking on over 5 million doors collectively across the state of Georgia, the hospitality workers’ union ran the largest labor-led field operation in Georgia this runoff. ATLANTA — As Election Day wraps-up across the state of Georgia, 500 UNITE HERE canvassers are knocking on over half-a-million doors as part […]
Press Releases November 16, 2021
Via D. Taylor, UNITE HERE International Union President and Marlene Patrick Cooper, UNITE HERE Local 23 President representing 500 Amtrak workers Yesterday, President Biden signed into law the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a substantial bill that will put millions to work and improve the lives and livelihoods of workers and families across […]
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