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  UNITE HERE welcomes inquiries from the media regarding our Hotel Workers Rising Campaign. For more information, see our press releases, fact sheets, and press kit below. If you have questions, or want to arrange interviews with hotel workers and union leaders, please contact Amanda Cooper. |
 Amanda Cooper Press Secretary UNITE HERE 212-332-9376 |
 On King St., the new face of labour digs in 2007-10-30 // TheStar.com  Linda Diebel Abdullah Faruque hardly sees himself as the new face of the union movement in Canada. Indeed, the concept quite overwhelms this immigrant from Bangladesh. He says he's walking a picket line in front of the Holiday Inn On King for his colleagues, nothing more. Full story 
Workers at 5 area hotels authorize strike2007-10-15 // Los Angeles Times.com Margot Roosevelt Complaining of low wages and severe workloads, housekeepers and other employees at five area hotels authorized their union on Friday to call a strike. The hotels include two downtown Los Angeles area establishments -- The Wilshire Plaza and the Holiday Inn -- as well as the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica and the Marriott Manhattan Beach. Full story
Boston Park Plaza, Sheraton Boston, Westin Waterfront and Westin Copley Hotels All Agree to Contract!2007-04-26 // After more than six months of negotiations, a contract agreement has been reached between
Hotel workers stage sit-ins at restaurants2007-04-17 // Boston Herald General Economics Reporter Hotel union workers “occupied” three restaurants in city hotels yesterday, distrupting lunchtime crowds and chanting, “No contract, no peace!”
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