Welcome to UNITE HERE Local 11
UNITE HERE Local 11 is providing assistance to hotel, restaurant, airport and food service workers to overcome challenges due to COVID-19.
Assistance with Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Tenant Rights and Rental Assistance
Hospitality Worker Hardship Fund
Organized workers earn more. Union members can enjoy health and pension benefits funded through employers’ contributions. Workers and their dependents can also negotiate to win free legal assistance with immigration services, housing issues, divorce, adoption and other services. Our families deserve more. Organize and Win!
California Fines Terranea $3.3 Million for Not Rehiring Laid Off Employees
Terranea resort fined for failing to rehire workers it laid off during pandemic shutdown
Terranea Resort Fined $3.3 Million for Failing to Rehire Laid-Off COVID Staff
Appeals court says Terranea Resort fired chef over union activities
Hospitality workers celebrate right to return to work
Red Carpet at the Picket Line
Thank You, Aaron Sorkin
Hotel workers allege luxury Santa Monica hotel violates COVID-19 safety rules – LA Times
Local 11 Joins Assemblywoman Gonzalez to Continue the Fight to Protect Jobs of Workers Laid Off Due to COVID-19
“Latinos have made up the backbone of the hospitality industry for decades. Many stayed with the same employers for years in order to work their way up and earn a stable living. They have already disproportionately suffered the brunt of this pandemic,” Assemblywoman Gonzalez said. “When hotels and event centers can safely reopen, the least we must do is ensure workers can return to the jobs they previously held. AB 1074 is commonsense policy that provides the support our local communities need to recover from this economic crisis.”
Earlier today, Assemblywoman Gonzalez joined dozens of workers who caravanned from Los Angeles and Orange County to La Jolla for a press conference outside JC Resorts’ corporate headquarters. JC Resorts owns and operates hotels and golf courses across California, including the Terranea Resort in Ranchos Palos Verdes, which terminated much of its workforce amid the pandemic without making a binding commitment to rehire longtime workers when the hotel reopened. Gonzalez’s AB 1074 would help ensure job security for these workers by establishing statewide rehiring and retention protections for California’s hospitality workforce.
“California’s hospitality workforce has been decimated by COVID-19, and these employees deserve basic protections which will allow them to return to the jobs and wages they earned before the pandemic as the industry reopens,” Senator María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angles), principal co-author of AB 1074, said. “This bill effectively addresses the concerns Governor Newsom raised to our prior effort.”
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez represents California’s 80th Assembly District, located in southern San Diego County, including the cities of San Diego, Chula Vista, and National City. She serves as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Appropriations and Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Latina Inequities. For more information on Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, visit http://asm.ca.gov/gonzalez