Corporations and governments have tried to control and intimidate working people for generations by exploiting our immigration status. Local 11 members help each other enforce our rights at work and in the community.
The fundamental protections in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights apply to EVERY PERSON, regardless of immigration status. Know your rights when you are questioned or detained by ICE.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
NO ICE IN LA
On Saturday October 4 we marched together with a powerful coalition of orgs, unions, and community groups to protest ICE and the $29.9 billion giveaway they received to tear our country apart. We took to the streets to fight for justice, dignity, and freedom, and to say: NO more ICE in our neighborhoods, NO more raids or fear, and YES to love and the power of the working class.
LA TIMES: ‘We are going to take back MacArthur Park’: Hundreds protest against federal immigration raids in Los Angeles
Taking Back MacArthur Park
On August 12, 2025 UNITE HERE Local 11 and union and community allies took back MacArthur Park following the military-style immigration raid that happened there a few weeks back. The labor movement and its allies are taking back the city and reclaiming it as our own LA is a union town!
Prepare a Family Plan
IRIS ACOSTA
Iris Acosta is a housekeeper at the W WestBeverly Hills. She is knocking on doors in Arizona for Kamala Harris and to defeat Trump! Thank you, Iris.
DINA PAREDES
Meet Dina Paredes, a housekeeper from the Alsace Hotel who went on strike last year and is now knocking on doors in Phoenix, Arizona to win the presidency for Kamala Harris. Way to go, Dina!
LA TIMES: House Democrats urge probe of L.A. hotels for ‘potentially predatory behavior’ toward migrant workers
Hollywood hotels scrutinized for financing under visa program: ‘Not fair’, say critics
Dina Paredes
Dina Paredes works at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles. A native of El Salvador and mother of two US citizen kids, she has lived in this country for more than 20 years and is a recipient of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Dina went to canvass to Arizona durong the 2020 presidential election to fight for her family and for all working immigrant women struggling to make ends meet.
Thousands of immigrants with “protected status” face possible deportation
IRIS ACOSTA
Los Angeles Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
Los Angeles Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
In September 2003, in the tradition of the Civil Rights Movement Freedom Rides in the sixties, the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride left from 10 cities with 900 riders from 50 different countries on a journey across the U.S. to fight for the rights of all immigrant workers.
This is the story of the Los Angeles Freedom Riders, led by Maria Elena Durazo and including many Local 11 workers.