Statement on Rep. Hilda Solis Confirmation Hearing from UNITE HERE General President Bruce Raynor:
January 9, 2009
At long last, the Bush Administration’s love affair with CEOs will soon come to an end. Its complicity in the growing income inequality in this country will soon come to an end. And its total failure to help workers gain a voice in their workplace will soon come to an end.
It’s strange when you think about it, really. A CEO would never agree to work without a contract guaranteeing his or her pay and benefits in writing. And yet, workers in this country suffered through an administration that did not think they deserve a contract. That ends on January 20th.
UNITE HERE Western Region Vice President Christina Vazquez appeared on Laura Flanders' GRITtv show yesterday to talk about the union's personal relationship with incoming Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, who she calls an "honorary shop steward".
Watch online at GRITtv.
Making the Feds Model Employers
January 1, 2009. In These times
A little over a year ago, roughly 500 workers assembled and sewed backpacks, safety vests and other gear for the military at the Michael Bianco Inc factory in New Bedford, Mass.
Happy holiday for laundry workers - back wages
December 19, 2008. San Francisco Chronicle
Five years after filing suit against her employer for failing to pay wages mandated by Hayward's living wage law, a former laundry worker in San Leandro opened an envelope Thursday and pulled out a check for $17,847.
