Our union mobilized to LA City Hall over Airbnbs attempt to further convert our housing into hotels through the proposed Vacation Rentals Ordinance. Back in 2018, our union helped defeat this proposal—but they’re trying again through their so-called “SOS” campaign. We need to stay organized and keep fighting to protect housing for our families, not for corporate short-term rental profits.
The so-called Overpaid CEO Tax initiative was announced at a rally outside Elon Musk’s Tesla Diner featuring union workers holding signs that read “Taxing greed to pay for what we need,” and a cartoon cutout of a boss carrying money bags and puffing a fat cigar.
“It’s high time the rich paid more taxes,” said Kurt Petersen, co-president of Unite Here Local 11, which represents airport and hotel employees.
As students return to campus for the spring semester, food service workers employed by Aramark at Arizona State University held a ‘Welcome Back’ picket at ASU’s Tempe campus to demand a fair contract, safe staffing levels, and respect on the job. The escalation came after ASU dining hall workers overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, escalating their fight with Aramark. With their contract expired and negotiations ongoing, workers warn that they could walk out at any moment if the company fails to reach a fair agreement.
Doña Salud, who is 83, is returning to her morning shift!
Last year Flying Food Group gave Doña Salud a shift that ended at midnight, and as someone who is 83 and has to take multiple buses to get to and from work every day, it was tremendously exhausting.
After her dish department got together and organized a successful shift bid on her behalf, justice was served!
As Los Angeles prepares to host the 2028 Olympic Games, workers at Crypto.com Arena took action to demand safe, welcoming Olympic venues free from the sorts of heavy-handed and abusive immigration enforcement that we have seen in Los Angeles and elsewhere in recent months. Workers delivered hundreds of petition signatures from their coworkers urging Crypto.com Arena to call on LA28 and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to commit to keeping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other immigration enforcement agencies out of Olympic venues and events.
“This arena runs because of immigrant workers.” said Marisela Gomez, a Stand Lead at Crypto.com Arena, where she’s worked for 15 years. “The Olympics will only succeed because of immigrant workers. If LA wants to welcome the world, it has to protect the people who make that welcome possible.”
February 26, 2026
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE
Hosted by Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, LLP
For UNITE HERE Local 11 Legal Fund members only
Work with an immigration attorney at no cost! You only pay 20% of the filing fee—$152. The Legal Fund covers the rest!
To get started, you’ll need to be Legal Fund eligible and provide the following:
Call (213) 785-6999 before January 22, 2026 to schedule an appointment
Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, LLP
250 E. 1st Street, Suite 1201, Los Angeles, CA 90012
[email protected]
www.hsrlegalfund.com
Airport workers at LAX who are members of SEIU-United Service Workers West and UNITE HERE Local 11 are sounding the alarm after Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson introduced a motion to substantially weaken the Olympic Wage Ordinance, which was passed by the City Council in May and survived a failed referendum effort paid for by airlines and hotel corporations. (read more…)
We shared some holiday joy with Universal Studios workers who received toys that were provided by Labor Community Services Los Angeles.
The UNITE HERE Local 11 Health Benefit Fund (formerly Santa Monica UNITE HERE Health Benefit Fund) has opened of our own Dental Office — just for Local 11 members and their eligible family members.
The new Dental Office at the UNITE HERE Health Center opened on July 28 and has already begun taking patients! Beginning August 1, 2025, it is also the primary dental facility for former Delta Dental PPO members who live 20 miles or closer to the new Health Center.
This private dental office is managed by the Fund in partnership with DYNTL. As a member, you can trust the advice of DYNTL’s dentists and specialists, who will provide the oral care and treatment you need, without “upselling” unnecessary and costly procedures.
1122 W. Washington Blvd, Ste 315 Los Angeles, CA, 90015
Phone: 310-894-8095
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.dyntl.com/local11
The Dental Office is a part of the new UNITE HERE Health Center, operated by the UNITE HERE Health Benefit Fund in partnership with DYNTL and MLK Community Health Care.
Hotel workers from the Jamaica Bay Inn, represented by UNITE HERE Local 11, at the 63rd annual Marina del Rey Boat Parade joining thousands of community members to celebrate a beloved holiday tradition while also calling for respect and a first union contract! And yes, we had a floating picket line! (See the video…)