Entries by UNITEHERELocal26

Employees of Harvard-Owned DoubleTree Suites Consider Joining Union

A delegation of workers at the Harvard-owned DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Boston presented hotel management with a petition Monday delcaring worker intentions to start the process of considering unionization. The petition, which was signed by a majority of the hotel’s workers, outlines their desire to be able to decide without the influence of hotel […]

Local 26 members at 10 Boston hotels will hold strike vote on Tuesday

Here’s a typical union tactic: Complain about the members’ pay levels or working conditions, with a goal of engendering the public’s sympathy. But Brian Lang, president of Unite Here Local 26, is taking a different approach with his union’s latest contract negotiations. Lang knows his members make a decent living wage. He just wants to […]

Will Labor Unions Survive?

Listen to WBUR Radio Podcast with Brian Lang, President of Unite Here!, the hospitality workers union and Professor Thomas Kochan, Co-Director of the Institute of Work and Employment Research at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Click on the title above to listen

A Call for Change in Freddie Mac Foreclosure Policy

Members of the Hospitality Workers Union, Local 26, join City Life/Vida Urbana in calling for a change of policy by Freddie Mac to help more people who lost their homes to foreclosure. Report for BNN News aired January 31, 2012 on the Boston Neighborhood Network. A Call for Change in Freddie Mac Foreclosure Policy from […]