Proof · Not promise

What collective power has actually won.

We don’t ask for trust. We show receipts. Employer named, workers counted, specific change recorded.

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

Lawrence, MA and Cambridge, MA are 6 miles apart. The same river valley. 114 years of the same fight.

Documented wins · With receipts

HARVARD DINING · 2024 · CONTRACT-VERIFIED $4.20 PER HOUR · 1,200 WORKERS Mei Lin Xu. Two hours each way to 40 minutes. Every day.
LOGAN AIRPORT · 2024 · CONTRACT-VERIFIED 420 GROUND CREW · EMPLOYER-COVERED HEALTHCARE No longer choosing between a doctor and rent.
HYATT CAMBRIDGE · 2019 · CONTRACT-VERIFIED 40hrs GUARANTEED EVERY WEEK · 240 WORKERS Carmen Vásquez. No second job for three years. 6 miles from Lawrence 1912.

BOSTON HOTELS · 2024 · MULTIPLE PROPERTIES 2,000+ WORKERS · HILTON, OMNI, SHERATON SETTLED Strike. Labor Day breakfast outdoors. Wages, healthcare, job security across downtown properties.
WYNN RESORTS · ENCORE BOSTON HARBOR · ONGOING $1.5B REVENUE 2025 — VERIFY BEFORE PUBLISHING $0 GUARANTEED HEALTHCARE FOR 800 WORKERS — STILL $0 LOCAL 26 · UNITE HERE

In one person’s actual life

Harvard Dining · 2024

Mei Lin Xu has worked in Harvard’s dining hall for eleven years. After the 2024 contract, she got $4.20 more an hour. She moved closer to work. Her commute went from two hours each way to forty minutes. That’s two hours of her life back, every single day.

✓ Verified · Documented

Hyatt Cambridge · 2019

Carmen Vásquez worked two jobs for six years. Hyatt Cambridge room attendant by day, second job at night. After the 2019 contract — 40 guaranteed hours — she hasn’t worked a second shift in three years.

✓ Verified · Documented

Press coverage

Boston Globe · Oct 2024

Workers at two Boston hotels vote to back a new contract with Omni, ending strike

Bay State Banner · Nov 2024

Hotel workers reach agreement with Hilton, end strike

WBUR · Sept 2024

Democrats move Labor Day breakfast outdoors in solidarity with hotel workers

Boston Globe · Jan 2024

At Meta’s Cambridge office, cafeteria workers fight to maintain union rights

Press contact: Seth Ogilvie · [email protected]

UNITE HERE Local 26 · Boston & Providence

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