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Close to a thousand workers and their supporters marched Wednesday, June 25, from Riverside Press Park in Cambridge to DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel in Allston, loudly demanding their right to unionize. “I want health insurance and a fair process for me and my coworkers, a fair contract and respect,” Midonia Portillo, 41, a Cambridge […]
Mayor Martin J. Walsh declared Wednesday he would sign a city ordinance to prohibit Boston police from detaining illegal immigrants for possible deportation, unless they were convicted of a serious crime. The proposal is still in its early stages, but Walsh’s announcement to a jubilant convention of mostly immigrant union delegates at the Hynes Convention […]
Workers at Harvard’s DoubleTree Suites care for Harvard students, professors, families and guests every day. They are members of the Harvard community, and deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. DoubleTree workers have sought a fair process to decide upon unionization since March 2013. Delmy Lemus, a room attendant, explained: “I am asking Harvard […]
The Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare” was created to increase the availability of benefits to workers nationwide. Do not to use the Affordable Care Act as an excuse to cut benefits for your workers. Why is this important? My name is Liz Helton. For eight years, I have worked for Sodexo at Earlham […]
Earlier this week, a group of housekeepers, nightclub servers and other employees from a Hilton DoubleTree hotel in Cambridge, which is on a property owned by Harvard, gathered outside the gates of the university while Sheryl Sandberg delivered a speech to this year’s graduates. It was a last ditch attempt by these workers to score […]