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Dave Jamieson

Feds Tell Hyatt To Lighten Housekeepers' Load

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.09.2012

After performing a series of hotel inspections, the federal agency that oversees workplace safety has sent a rare letter to the Hyatt Corporation reco...

Expanding Title VII to Cover Union Organizing

Jake Blumgart | Posted 04.04.2012

Jake Blumgart

Today, with unions weaker than ever before, and an influential wing of the Democratic Party shot through with anti-labor, pro-business ideology, it seems doubtful that even a carefully calibrated proposal like this could get through a Democratic-dominated Congress.

For Cesar Chavez Day, Can Pomona College Give Peace a Chance? Si, Se puede!

María Elena Durazo | Posted 03.31.2012

María Elena Durazo

The fight for a union at Pomona's dining hall continues, and unfortunately, so does the Pomona Administration's opposition.

Activists: Chicago's Richest Family Not Paying Enough Taxes

Posted 03.01.2012

Updated story A group of Chicago homeowners, hospitality workers and community leaders is calling on Chicago's wealthiest family to pay their fair ...

Airport Workers Fight For Job Security

Posted 02.28.2012

Hundreds of workers from Chicago's Midway and O'Hare airports will descend on City Hall Wednesday morning to attend a City Council meeting on the turn...

Dave Jamieson

Working Poor Stiffed Millions In Wages: Lawsuit

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.09.2012

More than a dozen low-level hotel workers in Indianapolis have filed a class-action lawsuit against ten of the city's hotels and a labor staffing agen...

The 99 Percent Takes Office: Lessons From A Rhode Island Special Election

Amy B. Dean | Posted 02.04.2012

Amy B. Dean

If labor and other progressive groups are going to rebuild an economy that works for the 99 percent in America, they need to do great organizing in workplaces and communities and they also need to build deep coalitions among themselves. But that's not enough.

Kathleen Miles

PHOTOS: 17 Arrested Protesting Firing Of Undocumented Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.25.2011

Story has been updated to reflect the latest arrest numbers. Pomona College dining hall workers and their supporters conducted a sit-in Friday to p...

Dave Jamieson

Hotel Worker Tells Story Behind Viral Resignation Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.19.2011

Like almost anyone who's ever held down a job, Joey DeFrancesco harbored dreams of one day quitting work in spectacular fashion. The way 23-year-o...

Dave Jamieson

Massachusetts City Moves To Ban Outsourcing Of Hotel Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.28.2011

The City of Cambridge, Mass., has moved to create an ordinance that will effectively bar hotels from outsourcing in-house jobs, the first ban of its k...

Lizzie Schiffman

Religious Leaders Join Hyatt Strikers, Host Interfaith Prayer

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 11.14.2011

Citing “the calling of their faith traditions to do justice for the oppressed,” Jewish, Christian and Muslim clergy will join employees striking a...

Hyatt Workers In The Midst Of Weeklong Strike

Posted 11.09.2011

Hyatt hotel workers in Chicago on Thursday morning joined their fellow unionized workers in three other cities with the launch of a weeklong strike ou...

Dave Jamieson

As Big Hotels Outsource Jobs, Workers Lose Hold On Living Wage

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.24.2011

INDIANAPOLIS -- Maria Fajardo has been working as a housekeeper and janitor in Indianapolis hotels since 1987. The job has changed a lot in 24 years, ...

WATCH: Union Files Complaint Over Hyatt Heat Lamp Incident

Posted 09.27.2011

Unite Here Local 1, a union representing some 170 Park Hyatt Chicago hotel workers who have been without a contract for nearly two years, announced Th...

Jen Sabella

Hyatt Protest Heats Up: Hotel Turns Heat Lamps On Union Strikers

HuffingtonPost.com | Jen Sabella | Posted 09.21.2011

UPDATE: The Hyatt released the following statement regarding the heat lamps being turned on Chicago strikers: Hyatt regrets the events that occurr...

Union Hyatt Regency Workers Hold One-Day Strike

Posted 08.20.2011

Union workers at Chicago's Hyatt Regency launched a one-day strike Monday at the 151 E. Wacker Drive location as they called for better working condit...

Hilton Chicago Strike: Workers Protest 'Cheap Recession Contracts'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

CHICAGO — Hundreds of Hilton Chicago Hotel workers started a three-day strike Saturday that union officials say is in protest of the hotel chain...

Labor's Missed Opportunity

Randy Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Randy Shaw

Labor's ongoing failure to achieve its national legislative goals speaks to an institutional dysfunction that transcends particular union leaders like Dick Trumka and Andy Stern.

Credit Reports Only Where Credit Is Due

Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 05.25.2011

Rep. Luis Gutierrez

If credit checks reinforce discrimination, don't accurately measure financial responsibility, and don't dependably predict job performance, why are so many employers using them?

Legislative Prospects for Immigration Reform: An Interview With Marshall Fitz

Daniel Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

Daniel Altschuler

I spoke with Fitz to explore the current context in the Beltway. We discussed the congressional politics on immigration in 2007 and 2010 and the significance of Latino voting patterns for the prospects of immigration reform.

Ryan Grim

Labor Legend Dolores Huerta Rips SEIU For Worker Intimidation

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

A legend of the labor movement stepped into the turmoil engulfing organized labor in California on Tuesday, pressing the new head of the Service Emplo...

Sock Puppets and Sugar Daddies: NOM and GOProud Go Hand in Hand

Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Rick Jacobs

The story of NOM and GOProud stands as a sad commentary on desperate people who realize that they stand at the fringes of America and history itself. Until progress prevails, we'll hold them all accountable.

From Civil War to Labor Vision

Amy B. Dean | Posted 05.25.2011

Amy B. Dean

The announcement of a settlement between two rivaling unions should be an occasion for us to refocus on what the labor movement is really about.

SEIU-UNITE HERE Settlement Reached

Randy Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Randy Shaw

After an 18-month battle that began with SEIU believing it could affect a hostile takeover of a fellow international union, the two unions reached a settlement today almost entirely on UNITE HERE's terms.

John Delloro's Legacy of Labor Leadership

Jonah Lalas | Posted 05.25.2011

Jonah Lalas

Workers are not perfect, John would remind us, but even if they are racist, sexist, homophobic, or anti-immigrant, they need to be organized.