Press Releases May 5, 2020
Click here for a PDF of the guidelines: UNITE HERE Health & Sanitation Guidelines for Gaming Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic LAS VEGAS—Along with all other non-essential business, all casinos in the United States have been closed since March in an attempt to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as some states prepare […]
Posts January 20, 2020
UNITE HERE’s Culinary Union Local 226 hosted a series of seven Town Halls throughout November, December, and January in Las Vegas with Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Tom Steyer to hear more from leading 2020 Democratic contenders on where they […]
Press Releases July 11, 2019
President D. Taylor: “Hotels are meant to welcome people from all over the world, not jail them” Statement by D. Taylor, President of UNITE HERE: “UNITE HERE stands for protecting and fighting for the dignity of all people within the borders of the United States and Canada. We fight for every working person in the […]
Press Releases January 4, 2019
Washington, DC – Five hundred UNITE HERE represented federal building cafeteria workers have been out on furlough since before Christmas, and without intervention will lose backpay entitled to other furloughed employees, and lapse of their healthcare coverage effective as early as February 1st. These workers are subcontracted by the federal government, and make under $32,000 […]
Press Releases November 13, 2018
Phoenix, AZ – Today after the US Senate race in Arizona was called nearly a full week after polls closed, UNITE HERE claimed it as the second successful US Senate seat flipped in large part by the extensive year long organizing ground game of the union. “I could not be more proud today of the year-long efforts […]
Press Releases September 27, 2018
(NEW YORK NY) – Today, Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), Bill Granfield, President of UNITE HERE Local 100, and Alvin Ramnarain, President of RWDSU Local 1102 lauded the vote by the Port Authority to enact a new wage resolution. In addition to increasing wages, the new policy includes […]
Press Releases June 26, 2018
New York, NY — UNITE HERE strongly condemns the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision upholding President Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban. Today, UNITE HERE’s International Union President D. Taylor issued the following statement: “The Supreme Court’s decision to condone the Trump Administration’s racist, xenophobic policy agenda is a disgrace to the core values of our country […]
Press Releases May 30, 2018
Las Vegas, NV – New investor alerts from UNITE HERE Gaming Research, the research arm of the hospitality workers’ union, project that a one-month strike in Las Vegas could cost the two largest employers on the Las Vegas Strip – MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) and Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: CZR) – over $300 million […]
Press Releases November 6, 2017
New York, NY – The termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for recipients born in Nicaragua by the Department of Homeland Security, and the non-commitment to protect Honduran TPS beyond July 2018, is an inhumane and immoral decision that could have devastating impacts on hundreds of thousands of families and the U.S. economy. UNITE HERE […]
Posts June 7, 2017
At UNITE HERE, we’re proud every day of our LGBTQ sisters and brothers who make up and lead our union, and we’re proud to continue our work as the premier labor union fighting for and winning civil and LGBTQ rights for our workers. It’s with pride that UNITE HERE has been a pioneer in securing […]
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