Latest Updates
Employees at W Boston, Back Bay Hotel vote to unionize
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 staff, valets, and maintenance workers at the two hotels are now members of Unite Here…
Dining Hall Workers Rally in The Yard
Harvard dining hall workers, students and Unite HERE members from across New England marched through the Yard Thursday night holding signs and chanting “we want justice” and “union power.” The march ended in the area outside of the Holyoke Center where the crowd sung a version of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” with lyrics…
Standing up for Our Rights
On May 1 my daughter and I joined Local 26 members and their families to march for immigrants rights. Since 2006, immigrant communities have been holding yearly marches in their search for better protections at work, and an end to discrimination. We marched to show that we are organized and that we are not afraid….
Building the Union
We’re working hard to build the union so that our numbers and strength grow and it shows! Workers at the Renaissance Hotel are still celebrating after winning a two-year struggle for a contract. In February, members overwhelmingly ratified an agreement that brings them into our city-wide contract standards. At the Back Bay Hotel, a long-awaited…
Membership Meeting