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Employees of the W Boston and the Back Bay Hotel have overwhelmingly voted to unionize, bringing the number of organized workers at Boston hotels to about 4,000, roughly 60 percent of all full-service hotel workers. Around 200 housekeepers, bellhops, restaurant staff, valets, and maintenance workers at the two hotels are now members of UNITE HERE […]
Harvard’s 550 food service workers are fighting for Sustainable Jobs. For the first time they have joined forces with Yale’s food service workers. Like many university food service workers Harvard’s dining hall employees are on layoff four months a year. Bylaw university employees can’t collect unemployment. And even though wages have increased, between 2010 and […]
Employees of the W Boston and the Back Bay Hotel have overwhelmingly voted to unionize, bringing the number of organized workers at Boston hotels to about 4,000, roughly 60 percent of all full-service hotel workers. Around 200 housekeepers, bellhops, restaurant staff, valets, and maintenance workers at the two hotels are now members of Unite Here […]
Harvard dining hall workers, students and Unite HERE members from across New England marched through the Yard Thursday night holding signs and chanting “we want justice” and “union power.” The march ended in the area outside of the Holyoke Center where the crowd sung a version of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” with lyrics […]
On May 1 my daughter and I joined Local 26 members and their families to march for immigrants rights. Since 2006, immigrant communities have been holding yearly marches in their search for better protections at work, and an end to discrimination. We marched to show that we are organized and that we are not afraid. […]