Breaking News!
March 22, 2012
Over five hundred campus food service workers at the University of Toronto, York University, and York’s Schulich School of Business are now in negotiations for new union contracts. These workers, many of whom are women, immigrants and people of colour, work for two global food service corporations, Aramark and Compass.
Despite being an integral part of the university community, too many campus food service workers are stuck working for close to minimum wage, in part-time positions, with inadequate or no benefits for themselves or their families.
We can do better than this at York and U of T. Whether we are students, or teachers, or workers – we are ALL part of the university community and, as such, we ALL deserve respect for the contributions we make.
Sign the petition and help send a message – campus food service workers deserve our respect!
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September 21, 2011
Hotel workers from three Ontario hotels have taken another step towards unionization, despite the threat of disciplines, suspensions and even termination. For the past several months, workers at the Novotel North York, Novotel Mississauga and Novotel Ottawa have been signing new union cards to join UNITE HERE, the union for hotel and hospitality workers. At a special meeting Tuesday night, leaders from all three hotels gathered to publicly announce majority support for the union at each of the hotels.
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June 16, 2011
On June 15th 2011, members of UNITE HERE Local 75 rallied at the Metropolitan Hotel in the heart of Toronto’s Chinatown. Without a new collective agreement for over a year, the workers to the streets in pursuit of the same standard their Local 75 sisters and brothers have already achieved in many other major hotels in the GTA.
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March 8, 2011
We are pleased to announce a binding settlement has been reached between UNITE HERE and Workers United/SEIU in Ontario. Similar to the agreement achieved by our respective International Unions in the US in July 2010, the agreement in Ontario preserves our union’s exclusive jurisdiction to organize in the hotel sector in the GTA.
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January 14, 2011
On January 13, UNITE HERE Local 75 members at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel ratified their new collective agreement, with improvements in wages, health benefits, retirement and more.
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