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Los Angeles Hotel Workers Could Use the 2028 Olympics to Their Advantage

New contracts will expire six months before the Games, giving workers an opening to pit public attention against employers.

Capital & Main · Mar 28, 2024

Long Beach Hotel Workers on Track to Earn the Highest Minimum Wage in the Nation

A ballot measure to raise pay to $23 an hour could help workers in labor negotiations and boost the local economy.

Capital & Main · Mar 15, 2024

Union Negotiating Strategy Pays Off in SoCal Hotel Deals

In the face of weak labor laws, hospitality workers brought their fight for better wages and working conditions to the court of public opinion.

Capital & Main · Jan 4, 2024

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L.A. Wants To Commandeer Vacant Hotel Rooms as Homeless Housing

Los Angeles voters will decide in March whether to force hotels to report empty rooms to the city and accept vouchers from homeless people.

Reason · Nov 13, 2023

Virginians vote as all 140 legislative seats in battleground state up for grabs

Republicans look to maintain narrow majority in house and flip state senate, which could carry national implications

The Guardian - US · Nov 7, 2023

A hotel worker's 3-hour commute tells the story of LA's housing crisis and her strike

Long commutes are a key reason why LA hotel workers have been on rolling strikes since early July. And they have a unique solution for hotels to help them.

WEKU · Oct 15, 2023

Signature Room operator violated law on layoff notices, union says

Hospitality union Unite Here Local 1 says 132 Signature Room workers got no advance notice of plans to close the restaurant and lounge at 875 N. Michigan Ave.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 2, 2023

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Kinzie Hotel ends lockout of union employees

Members of Unite Here Local 1 were reinstated after a bargaining session resulted in a tentative contract.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 8, 2023

13 workers at Kinzie Hotel still locked out over picketing

Management said the workers took part in an “economic strike” but their union said the tactic is allowed under federal law.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 5, 2023

Los Angeles Hotel Workers Turn Up Media Pressure Amid Boycott Efforts

When one conference declined to cancel, a union walkout helped drive other concessions.

Capital & Main · Sep 1, 2023

How Striking Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles

With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.

Capital & Main · Jul 20, 2023

Gustavo Arellano: On the picket line, a telling alliance between hotel workers and screenwriters

Oh, it was noisy Thursday afternoon outside the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, California, as more than 200 protesters marched near the entrance.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 14, 2023

The Truth About the Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Strike

Despite recent wins, union members still can’t afford to live anywhere near where they work.

Capital & Main · Jul 11, 2023

Gustavo Arellano: Three's not a crowd. Meet the co-presidents of the union behind the hotel workers' strike

LOS ANGELES — In a red-shirted sea of hundreds of striking hotel workers marching through downtown Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, Ada Briceño, Susan Minato and Kurt Petersen were just faces in the crowd.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 8, 2023

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The Guardian - US · Jun 20, 2023

My friend Harvey Milk celebrated hope. This Pride month, unions provide it

In these dangerous times for LGBTQ+ people, a union contract is a line of defense against discrimination and abuse

Capital & Main · Jun 5, 2023

L.A.’s Summer of Solidarity

Reaching across diverse backgrounds and kinds of work, thousands of union members are sharing strategy and stories of the struggle to live and work in Los Angeles.

WEKU · May 11, 2023

Want your hotel room cleaned every day? Hotel housekeepers hope you say yes

Daily room cleaning used to be standard in hotels. Now, the union UNITE HERE is fighting to bring that back, as hotels have cut back citing worker shortages and changing guest preferences.

The Guardian - US · May 5, 2023

Focus organizing drives on workers without college degrees, US unions told

Experts say union upsurge for journalists and graduate students is pleasing but blue-collar workers require assistance too

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Capital & Main · Mar 6, 2023

Food Workers Find Doors Barred on Day of Union Protest

On the day Flying Food Group employees in L.A. had planned to picket, they found exit doors wouldn't open.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 5, 2023

United Center concessions workers in 1-day walkout

Sunday’s job action by members of Unite Here Local 1 comes as the venue approaches the five-day Big Ten men’s basketball tournament.

Roll Call · Feb 22, 2023

House cafeteria workers eyeing pickets, walkouts if contract talks sour - Roll Call

House cafeteria workers represented by Unite Here are eyeing pickets, walkouts if contract talks with Sodexo turn sour.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 1, 2023

United Center concessions workers authorize strike

The labor dispute hits during a busy time on the West Side arena’s calendar, with a strike potentially affecting 700 employees.

Tribune News Service · Nov 30, 2022

Fresh off big Senate wins, Unite Here leader thinks even bigger

“It was a graveyard before the union,” Malcom McCombs said as his Senate cafeteria colleagues nodded.

Roll Call · Nov 30, 2022

Fresh off big Senate wins, Unite Here leader thinks even bigger - Roll Call

The union organized Capitol dining workers and boosted Democrats in key states. So it was about time for its leader to visit Washington.

The Guardian - US · Oct 29, 2022

‘We’re going to win’: the union fighting for Democratic votes during the US midterms

States like Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania may determine who controls the US Senate, invigorating Unite Here’s effort to mobilize Democratic votes

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