Remembering Reverend James Lawson

From the 1950’s lunch counter sit-ins demanding racial integration in Nashville to today’s worker demonstrations for respect here in Los Angeles, Reverend James M. Lawson Jr. taught us all to be leaders of a movement of love.

UNITE HERE Local 11 Endorses Kamala Harris for President

UNITE HERE, the union running the nation’s largest labor-led canvassing operation, proudly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President in the 2024 election. Harris has consistently shown her unwavering dedication to working people and the labor movement.

WINNING THE 2023–2024 HOTEL STRIKE

Since July 1, 2023, workers in Los Angeles, Orange County, and Arizona have gone on strike more than 175 times, making this the nation’s largest hotel worker strike wave in modern history. Hotel-worker wages, like those for all Angelenos, have not kept up with soaring housing costs. The striking workers have demanded that the hotel industry, which is enjoying record post-pandemic profits, cough up major wage increases so that workers can live near where they work.

LOCAL 11 STRIKE WINS!

MY FIGHT IS YOUR FIGHT

BERNIE SANDERS AT HOTEL FIGUEROA

“All you are asking for is justice, you work hard and want fair compensation. I just want to tell you that you are part of a growing movement in this country. So the message of today is that we are sick and tired of the greed of corporate America, workers deserve a decent life, and this union deserves a decent contract.” Senator Bernie Sanders

CONTRACT HIGHLIGHTS

CONTRACT RATIFICATIONS

We have won an unprecedented agreement in every way, from wages, pension, and healthcare to job security, to fair staffing guarantees.  But our members’ tenacity and fearlessness is even more impressive. No one has fought harder to win a living wage, sacrificing pay and overcoming physical violence and abuse than room attendants, cooks and servers. They are  heroes.

Coming to NAMM? Don’t cross the picket line!

WE ARE WINNING!

No More Poverty Wages at Universal Studios

OCCUPY CENTURY BOULEVARD

Strikers from Century Boulevard hotels created an OCCUPY action right in front of the Sheraton Gateway & Sheraton Four Points LAX so the bosses couldn’t miss us.