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  • Workers Challenge Big Food
    Jenny Brown
    Nov 23 2011 - 10:51am

    Where does our food come from? “Farm to fork” may sound like a doctrine for foodies, but for workers in food production and service, struggling for decent jobs, it’s an organizing goal, as they attempt an alliance to take on the food mega-corporations.

  • SEIU Settles Sodexo’s Racketeering Suit, with Organizing Gains Uncertain
    Mischa Gaus
    Nov 14 2011 - 10:05am

    The Service Employees' corporate campaign at the food-service giant Sodexo ended September in secrecy. It’s unclear if the agreement includes provisions that organizers say have led to success elsewhere.

  • Week-Long Strikes Push Hyatt for Contracts, Right to Solidarity
    Jenny Brown
    Sep 12 2011 - 1:42pm

    Hotel workers escalated their efforts against Hyatt, launching a week-long strike in four cities Thursday. They want contracts, and the right to strike or boycott in support of Hyatt workers elsewhere.

  • Hotel Workers Turn Up Heat on Stubborn Hyatt
    Jenny Brown
    Jul 22 2011 - 1:02pm

    The summer heat wave got even hotter on the picket line in front of the Chicago Park Hyatt yesterday when hotel managers turned winter heat lamps on their striking workers. They were striking for the day as part of a wave of pickets and civil disobedience hitting Hyatt hotels in nine cities.

  • Hotel Housekeepers Break Silence on Job Assaults
    Jenny Brown
    Jun 2 2011 - 6:38pm

    When a union hotel worker accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, the reverberations went beyond one rich man's legal woes. Many hotel workers are coming forward with their stories of sexual abuse, aided by UNITE HERE.

  • Hotel Workers Crack Hilton, Face Quickie Hyatt Elections
    Jenny Brown
    Mar 23 2011 - 1:33pm

    Hotel workers have wrested contracts from Hilton after a year and a half of pickets, lobby takeovers, boycotts, and short strikes. They hope the wins will set off a cascade of agreements in the recovering hospitality industry.

  • Hotel Workers Target Hyatt

    Hyatt hotel workers are on the march again. They’re calling out management’s push for more work in less time, plus the chain’s demands to push more health care costs onto workers and “lock in the recession” at the bargaining table.

  • Hyatt Housekeepers: This Job Hurts!
    Jenny Brown
    Dec 6 2010 - 10:05am

    Ailing housekeepers from 12 Hyatt hotels called on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to respond to an alarming pattern of injuries. Workload pressures bring lifting strains and repetitive-motion problems, but OSHA has no standards for cleaners.

  • Unions Reach for Short Strikes to Stop Concessions
    Jenny Brown & Mischa Gaus
    Nov 2 2010 - 4:46pm

    Around the country, owners are recovering profitability but refusing to share the gains. Nurses and hotel workers are pulling short strikes—just to stay in place—as employers demand givebacks and cut staffing to the bone.

  • Hotel Workers Wildcat in Southern California
    Andrew Cohen and Joseph Murphy
    Aug 19 2010 - 11:58am

    Hotel workers in Irvine, California, did something August 9 almost unheard of recently—they struck a non-union shop. A daylong picket demanded bosses stop denying breaks and pay for years of missed breaktime.