Your New Pension Plan
“On behalf of the Greater Boston Hotel Employees Local 26Trust Funds, we want to be the first to say, “Welcome toyour new pension plan!” Select a link below to read more. Pension Plan (English) Pension Plan (Spanish) Pension Plan (French) Pension...
Harvard Law Dining Workers Join UNITE HERE
On December 2, Restaurant Associates / Compass workers at Harvard Law School became the newest members of UNITE HERE Local 26. “It’s been a long time coming,” said RA Union committee leader Willie Moore. “And now, if you take one of us...
Hotel Workers at W Boston Join Local 26
Employees of the W Boston and the Back Bay Hotel have overwhelmingly voted to unionize, bringing the number of organized workers at Boston hotels to about 4,000, roughly 60 percent of all full-service hotel workers. Around 200 housekeepers, bellhops, restaurant...
Latest Updates
Harvard Club of Boston Faces Complaint
The Harvard Club of Boston, an alumni organization independent from the University, recently came under fire for its behavior during contract discussions with its workers. On Oct. 3, the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against the Club for negotiating “in bad faith” with its service staff—including cooks, cleaners and servers. The complaint serves…
Brandeis Dining Hall Workers Win Contract
On October 10, 2011, Local 26 members at dining halls at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA ratified a new contract with Aramark that offers some of the same groundbreaking gains won by workers at Harvard dining halls last month. The new contract language offers new and improved health care and wage increases of $2.60 an…
Local 26 Harvard Members Win Groundbreaking Food Service Contract
Dining hall workers at Harvard, the country’s oldest university, have brought home a historic victory. UNITE HERE Local 26′s 550 members at Harvard started organizing a contract campaign a year ago to push Harvard to provide sustainable food and create sustainable jobs. While Harvard workers had decent pay and benefits, their real earnings had been…
