UNITE HERE Local 26 — Massachusetts & Rhode Island

You’re not powerless.
You were just alone.

12,000 hotel, airport, university, food service, and casino workers across Massachusetts and Rhode Island — together.

Hotel workers · Hyatt Boston contract campaign · 2024 · 240 workers, 40 guaranteed hours

The fight right now

WYNN RESORTS · ENCORE BOSTON HARBOR · 800 WORKERS $1.5B REVENUE 2025 — VERIFY BEFORE PUBLISHING $0 GUARANTEED HEALTHCARE FOR THOSE 800 WORKERS LOCAL 26 · UNITE HERE

Encore Boston Harbor · Priority campaign

800 casino workers. No guaranteed healthcare. Contract expires September 2026.

Wynn Resorts chose this. 800 Encore workers are in the process of unmaking it — together.

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Member story · Hyatt Cambridge

“She didn’t need a different job. She needed 240 people to ask together.”

Carmen Vásquez · Room Attendant · Hyatt Cambridge · Member since 2019

Carmen Vásquez worked two jobs for six years. Hyatt Cambridge room attendant by day, second job at night, every week.

After the 2019 contract — 40 guaranteed hours, no more scheduling games — she hasn’t worked a second shift in three years.

More stories like this →

1886 Haymarket, Chicago Workers die demanding the 8-hour day. May Day is born. 1912 Bread & Roses · Lawrence, MA 23,000 workers. January snow. 15% raise & overtime. They won. 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act The 40-hour work week. Built on union organizing. 2019 → 2026 Cambridge → Everett · 6 miles apart. Still going. Hyatt 40hrs · Harvard $4.20 · Logan healthcare · Encore ongoing

What collective power has actually won · With receipts

HARVARD DINING · 2024 · VERIFIED $4.20 PER HOUR · 1,200 WORKERS Mei Lin Xu. Commute: 2hrs each way → 40 min. Every day.

LOGAN AIRPORT · 2024 · VERIFIED 420 GROUND CREW · HEALTHCARE COVERED No longer choosing between a doctor and rent.

HYATT CAMBRIDGE · 2019 · VERIFIED 40hrs GUARANTEED EVERY WEEK · 240 WORKERS 6 miles from Lawrence 1912. Same fight.

If you work in hotels, airports, universities, food service, or casinos in MA or RI

This is for you.

See what your co-workers have won. Find out what a contract at your workplace could look like.

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If you want to put your anger somewhere useful

We have a list.

Boycott list. Historical thread from 1912 to right now. Specific ways to show up.

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UNITE HERE Local 26 · Boston & Providence

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