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  • Hilton BoycottThe Anchorage Hilton at one time was a cornerstone in our Community. It was a place where workers were treated with dignity and respect. Once upon a time, for 30 years, the Hilton was good to its workers and helped make and keep Anchorage a vibrant community. That all changed when Kentucky-based Columbia Sussex bought the hotel and has been driving down Alaskan job standards, Anchorage families and their ability to survive in our great State.  For five years workers at the Anchorage Hilton have been fighting for affordable healthcare, safe workloads, job security protections, and reasonable wage increases in the face of out-of-state corporate employers. Columbia Sussex, owned by William J. Yung III, continues to hurt Alaska middle class families by imposing unsafe workloads on workers at the Anchorage Hilton, especially in housekeeping; a profession with higher injury rates than coal miners. Cuts to healthcare coverage of workers and increasing employee contributions further burdens Alaska workers. Workers of the Anchorage Hilton have endured over FIVE years of no wage increase! This is yet another low blow to Alaskan workers and their ability to provide for their families. Anchorage Hilton workers, represented by UNITE HERE Local 878, have been attempting…
  • Support the BoycottsUmmmm, this needs help… UNDER BOYCOTT Sheraton Anchorage (make these words a link to Sheraton Anchorage page) Anchorage Hilton (make these words a link to Anchorage Hilton page) Support the Boycotts Pic of 1 action outside Hilton and 1 outside Sheraton (I would if there were pictures) Overview of Labor Disputes & Why Alaskans Should Care
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  • AboutAbout UNITE HERE Local 878 We are the union representing over 1,100 workers in the Alaskan hospitality industry – hotel, restaurant, laundry and food service workers. In Anchorage, alone, there are over 750 union hotel workers.  Across the state, we are hotel workers, restaurant, janitorial, laundry and in-flight catering workers.Together we have built strong standards and raised our quality of life for ourselves, our families and other hotel workers.  Being a part of a union generally means that your wages, healthcare and benefits are better than your non-union counterparts. We are also part of an international union, UNITE HERE, which is 300,000 members strong.  That’s a big family working together with the common interest of securing and maintaining good jobs!  In 2004, our UNITE HERE brothers and sisters created a movement called Hotel Workers Rising!  The goal is to make hotel jobs, good, middle-class jobs.  Because so many of us work for the same national or multi-national corporations, we realized that we should fight for our rights on a larger scale by combining our efforts.  In doing so across state and national borders, we have successfully increased our strength and not only won better working conditions, wages and benefits for…
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Break the RAT Rally!!!

January 11, 2013/in Uncategorized

 

Workers of the Sheraton Anchorage hotel line up to take a swing at the Remington rat.

“Thank you for joining us today in front of the rat, Remington, as we continue the good fight on behalf of the employees of this hotel and ALL Alaskans. We are making a difference, demanding fairness and respect in the workplace.

Please continue with the message and let our voices be heard. One day we will stand here united with a signed contract.

Until then, Remington knows, ‘We will be back!'”

-Fay – Sheraton Banquet Server since 1988

"We will not be defeated! We will fight one day longer! We will break the rat!"

 

And the rat did break that day, full money owed and empty promises. It stood no chance against united Alaskan workers.

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Light the Night for Workers Rights Vigil

November 30, 2012/in Uncategorized

“We call upon this place of business to repent and be redeemed, to turn from selfish and greedy ways to a way of business that benefits all – guests, workers, managers, corporate executives and investors.

I stand and speak to remind us all that the choices we make and the actions we take in this life, on this earth, are of ultimate concern.  The way we live—as individuals, families, businesses, societies and nations—matters to God.  God cares.  God cares, intensely, about justice and righteousness in the workplace.  God judges the unjust; God judges the greedy corporate executives and business managers who treat their employees unjustly.  The Word of God calls out:

Do not heap up for yourselves piles of profits to satisfy your greed; rather, hear and heed
the voice of the prophets who speak the truth of God’s reign of justice for all.

We call upon this place of business to repent and be redeemed, to turn from selfish and greedy ways to a way of business that benefits all –investors, corporate executives, managers, workers, and guests.”  – Pastor Petersen at the boycott Hilton vigil

 

Over 50 community members, lit the street by candlelight, and endured single digit temps & biting wind to show support for good jobs in Alaska, Alaska workers & Alaska job standards.

“A Thousand candles can be lit from a single candle. The life of the candle will never be shorted by sharing its light."

 

A delegation of Anchorage housekeepers, community leaders and supporters move inside the Hilton hotel to deliver a letter about respecting Alaska job standards & treating Alaska workers with dignity and respect.

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Solidarity Rally with AFL-CIO President Trumka

August 27, 2012/in Latest News

Solidarity March & Rally with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

UniteHERE President Marvin Jones with NW Regional Director Rick Sawyer, Alaska AFL-CIO President Vince Beltrami & AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

 

 

Thank you to everyone: who helped make this a great success, for your continued support of the workers and good jobs in Alaska, and the worker-called boycotts at the Sheraton Anchorage & Anchorage Hilton hotels.

 

 

It’s been over 3 long years since workers at the Sheraton and Hilton have had a wage increase

AK AFL-CIO President Vince Beltrami addresses the crowd at the rally in front of the Anchorage Hilton where workers have been fighting for a fair contract for over 3 years

 

 

Chants of ‘What’s disgusting? Union busting! What’s outrageous? Poverty Wages!’ could be heard for blocks


Workers & supporters line the street surrounding the Kentucky-owned Anchorage Hilton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Support the boycotts by not eating, sleeping, or attending meetings at these hotels until workers can resolve a fair contract with their Kentucky-based (Hilton) and Texas-based (Sheraton) employers.

AFL-CIO President Trumka speaks to the crowd about how employers like the Texas-owned Sheraton Anchorage & Kentucky-owned Anchorage Hilton, are a cancer.

You can find more photos from the rally on our Facebook Page

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VIDEO: Anchorage Sheraton Workers Speak Out

May 24, 2012/in Latest News

Check out this video from Unite HERE Local 878! Workers at the Sheraton Alaska who experienced harassment, intimidation, cut hours, unspecified job titles, loss of seniority and much more with new management in place.

 

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