Entries by UNITEHERELocal26

Local 26 Harvard Members Win Groundbreaking Food Service Contract

Dining hall workers at Harvard, the country’s oldest university, have brought home a historic victory. UNITE HERE Local 26’s 550 members at Harvard started organizing a contract campaign a year ago to push Harvard to provide sustainable food and create sustainable jobs. While Harvard workers had decent pay and benefits, their real earnings had been […]

Outsourcing Hotel Jobs To Be Banned In Cambridge

  The City of Cambridge, Mass., has moved to create an ordinance that will effectively bar hotels from outsourcing in-house jobs, the first ban of its kind in the country.

Workers at Boston’s “Ames” hotel join UNITE HERE

On September 8th, 86 workers at “Ames,” a luxury boutique hotel in Boston, joined UNITE HERE Local 26. Ames is the 12th hotel to join Local 26 since 2000. Workers at the W hotel joined Local 26 earlier this year.

Rabbis step up pressure on Hyatt

Roused by the firing of 98 Hyatt workers in the Boston two years ago, a group of Jewish clergy from around the country has issued a report assailing labor practices at the hotel chain. The report spotlights Hyatt’s treatment of its housekeepers, calling attention to its increased use of subcontractors that pay lower wages and […]

The new face of unions: Young hipsters are filling the ranks in the service industry

At a recent installment of “Cocktail Wars,’’ a bartending competition on the Boston nightlife circuit, hotel worker Melissa Godfrey glanced around the room and noted how many people she knew from union organizing work. Over there, a young woman who works at the W Boston. Up there, a bartender from KO Prime, the swank steakhouse […]