Press Releases December 3, 2007
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 – The labor union UNITE HERE launched a multi-state campaign today to encourage consumers not to deposit their savings at Countrywide Financial Corporation’s banks and financial centers. Consumers can find comprehensive information on the unfolding national mortgage crisis and Countrywide’s continuing role in it at www.dontdepositatcountrywide.info. UNITE HERE represents over 450,000 […]
Press Releases July 29, 2006
Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE:HLT) today announced a tentative agreement with the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council on a new contract relating to the Hilton New York and Waldorf=Astoria Hotels, and also announced a five-year agreement with UNITE HERE that the parties have termed a “Partnership for Future Growth.” The New York agreement, which […]
Press Releases August 23, 2005
(New York) As Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G) enter their final round of negotiations, UNITE HERE announces its unyielding support for its fellow union members across the Atlantic. UNITE HERE and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have also been negotiating with Gate Gourmet on behalf of over 6,000 members working […]
Press Releases March 16, 2005
(Toronto – March 16, 2005) – Canadian taxpayers could be losing tens of thousands of dollars annually because of bogus surcharges on a federal government contract, according to a petition filed today with Canada’s Auditor General. The labour union UNITE HERE alleges that Cintas Corporation (Cintas), which provides uniforms to federal inspectors at 66 abattoirs […]
Press Releases September 5, 2024
San Francisco, CA—Following widespread Labor Day strikes that saw over 10,000 UNITE HERE members walk off their jobs, the hotel workers union has launched a new website highlighting concerns over the high cost of resort fees. While workers took to the picket lines across nine cities calling for higher wages, fair staffing, and the reversal […]
Press Releases June 11, 2024
WASHINGTON DC – Enrique Fernandez, UNITE HERE Vice President for Immigration, Civil Rights, and Diversity, released the following statement: “Last Tuesday, the Biden Administration announced an executive order placing severe restrictions on the refugee/asylum system. We are disappointed with this measure, which will not appease the administration’s far-right critics, but will make things harder for […]
Press Releases November 7, 2022
The hospitality workers’ union — running the largest canvasing operations in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, with a smaller-scale effort in Georgia — announced earlier over 1,200 canvassers are knocking on 2.7 million doors for the 2022 midterms. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — On Monday — in the home stretch before the 2022 midterm election — hospitality workers’ union UNITE […]
Press Releases December 14, 2021
MCLEAN, VA – Hotel workers’ union UNITE HERE has issued a travel alert for Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HLT) guests, advising that most Hilton hotels’ default is no longer to clean hotel rooms daily. As the COVID-19 Omicron variant raises new safety concerns about holiday travel, housekeepers say that Hilton should not reduce cleaning services. […]
Press Releases June 21, 2021
With the Senate scheduled to vote tomorrow on the For the People Act, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer met today with hundreds of UNITE HERE hospitality workers who are on their way to Washington, D.C. to demand that the Senate pass legislation to protect and expand the right to vote. “Voting is fundamental to working people’s […]
Press Releases December 11, 2020
MEDIA ADVISORY for Saturday, December 12 at Noon ET WHO: African immigrant UNITE HERE union members from Atlanta and Washington D.C.; Congressman Hank Johnson; former Congressman Luis Gutierrez; State Representative-Elect and member of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) Zulma Lopez; Clarkston City Councilman Awet Eyasu; AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre; other […]
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