Democrats can learn from this
@ossoff
and
@ReverendWarnock
win. Invest in the ground game and in long-term organizing. To take back long ceded parts of the country – we must have one conversation, one door at a time – millions of times over.
@unitehere
In Philadelphia:
250k doors knocked
25k voters who didn’t vote in 2016 pledged to vote
500
@unitehere
members and allies on the doors.
We’re at the birthplace of democracy and we’re ready to GOTV tomorrow!
#BidenHarris2020
#takeback2020
I am deeply honored to lead UNITE HERE into a new era. Our Union has shown incredible resilience and strength through the pandemic and set new standards for jobs in our industries. We proved that hospitality jobs can be good union jobs.
We wouldn’t have this day to rest, relax, and enjoy the fruits of the labor movement if our union predecessors hadn’t stood up to fight for them. On Labor Day, UNITE HERE members will celebrate by fighting for better jobs and talking to voters. 🧵
Hotel workers won’t accept a “new normal” where hotel companies profit by cutting their offerings to guests—and abandoning their commitments to workers.
We’re on strike to win respect for our work, our guests, and our families.
🚨BREAKING🚨
10,000 hotel workers across the continental USA and Hawaii are on strike 📢
We will not accept painful workloads that are breaking our bodies or jobs that can’t support our families. Enough is enough.
This week, Donald Trump and some of the most far-right, anti-labor thought leadership gathered in Milwaukee for the RNC. The dangerous, fringe ideas laid out as their vision for America threaten the very foundation of workers' rights & undermine the progress we've fought for. 1/x
Hats off to every canvasser and field support person going door to door to connect with voters. You changed history! ✊🏼👍🏼. “The consequences of this history-defying midterm election result are still being revealed.” - BBC news
Hey
@coffee_comrades
! Great meeting you today. Your determination was clear and your courage was front and center. Let’s win this. ✊🏼💪🏼🙌
@unitehere
@UHMWJB
I'm so excited to welcome our
@unitehere
delegates from across the U.S. and Canada to New York City as they arrive for our 2024 convention! It's going to be a great next few days. It's Up To Us!
Thank you
@nseufot
, CEO of
@NewGAProject
“I wanna say good morning to the ‘$15 and a union’ voters. I wanna say good morning to the ‘one job should be enough
@unitehere
’ voters. I wanna say good morning to ‘the South got something to say’ voters”.
Congratulations to the most diverse slate of leadership elected to the
@aflcio
!
@UNITEhere
looks forward to meeting the moment together—and organizing like we've never organized before.
#AFLCIOConv
It’s taken decades of organizing, marching and striking to win good pay, benefits and dignity on the job. We can wait a few more days for
#election2020
results.
To all the canvassers and phone bankers in Florida who tore it up all fall - thank you, thank you, thank you and this victory is yours 110%! PS Nice job on the statewide minimum wage.
@UniteHere737
@unitehere355
@UNITEHERE_CFL
@unitehere
“My first document in this country was a union card!” -
@unitehere
VP for Immigration, Civil Rights & Diversity Enrique Fernandez. We will not stop until all workers - Dreamers, TPS holders and all noncitizens - can achieve citizenship and join unions.
@UNITEHERE19
#aflcioconv
Go Zinnia! "[She] said she realized it wasn’t about just telling people to vote, but building relationships and having a conversation."
@UHMWJB
@unitehere
We knocked on the doors of half a million voters in Philadelphia
We identified 30k people who wanted to vote
#bidenharris
As a union that organizes, we knew we had to step up.
#1u
Gate Gourmet workers have been waiting for far too long for raises and decent health care!
The company must come to the table with an acceptable offer for a new union contract. If not, we’re ready to act immediately if we are released to strike later this month.
In an important step towards allowing 8,000 union members across the US to be able to strike, Gate Gourmet workers have been released from federal mediation.
Workers could be released to strike as soon as July 30.
We don’t want to strike, but we will! Great to see everyone out at the action today including our union siblings, local reps and community leaders!!! ✊ ✊ Union busting is disgusting - UNH facilities workers need job security NOW and if we don’t get it? SHUT IT DOWN🔥 🔥 🔥
Yesterday,
@uhlocal24
VP Terrell George & I watched the most pro-union
@POTUS
order all Federal agencies to uphold labor standards in all they do, from giving grants to creating policy. This Good Jobs Executive Order will REMAIN in effect unless a future President rescinds it.
Workers in our industry, hospitality, do jobs that have historically been underappreciated and undervalued, because they have been classified as “women’s work.” Their labor must be valued and respected the same as work in male-dominated professions like factory work or trades.
Hurrah for the
#takeback2020
Las Vegas leads team. Hundreds of
@Culinary226
members canvassing every day!
@unitehere
health and safety canvass protocols leading the way. Join us in the field!
98% of us got laid off. Many of us are still out-of-work. But NEVER underestimate the strength and spirit of people mobilized by Union Power. With grit and determination, UNITE HERE hospitality workers are beating the odds to come back—and
#ComeBackStronger
. Watch this.
The Mission: 1 million doors by Jan. 5.
The Team: 500 strong.
The Senate: In our reach.
The Country: Ready for change.
Let's do this. Let's
#TakeBackTheSenate
. Let's
#TakeBack2020
.
The most memorable quote anyone said to me this year could also prove the most prescient:”We are in the battle every place," Gwen Mills, the
@unitehere
secretary-treasurer, said of NV AZ & PA. "All of [these races] are w/in the margin of effort.” Margin of effort-killer concept
Huge Shout out 🙌 to
@AFLCIOGeorgia
for making todays union member doorknocking for Warnock happen! 3 more days of knocking = 6 more years of leadership from
@ReverendWarnock
The president of UNITE HERE, the nation’s hotel and casino union, stepped down and called for a coalition of unions to address economic inequality. From
@HaroldMeyerson
:
I want to lead a Union that's always getting better.
@unitehere
members enjoy a standard that millions of hospitality workers don’t yet have.
It’s up to us to teach, learn from, lead & protect one another so we can continue the fire of organizing from this past year. We’re ready
.
@HelloFresh
profited big time from COVID — they sold 2x more meals in 2020 than the year before in the US. We support workers who are organizing a union and stand with them to make history in the meal kit industry! Join us NOW: .
🚨 NEW ORGANIZING ALERT 🚨
Workers
@HelloFresh
are organizing with UNITE HERE!
It's time for safety and respect at meal kit factories.
It's time for change.
It's time to join together in UNION.
#HelloFresh
.
@unitehere
knocked on the doors of more than 2.8M Americans
We rocked the largest union door-to-door canvass nationwide
Voters showed up in record numbers for Biden
Now it’s time to Count 👏🏽 Every 👏🏾 Vote 👏🏿
#EveryVoteCounts
#TakeBack2020
We can’t tackle climate change without eradicating the runaway corporate greed that burns up our atmosphere - and burns through workers lives.
#EarthDay2021
🙌🙌 To
@glenn_bac
for asking
@AFLCIO
unions “are we doing enough to invest in young worker organizing?” “Young workers aren’t the future, they’re the now” - thx Glenn!
Library members are tired of seeing priceless materials shipped to subcontractors. Yale, will you respect our jobs and our collections?
#yalerespectourunions
#yale
#unitehere
We are so happy to be in NYC, where we held our first convention in 1892. We're thrilled to be back in 2024.
THANK YOU
@NYCMayor
for the very warm welcome, and to all the
@NYHTC
members at the Hilton Midtown for showing us the best hospitality in town!
THE VOTES ARE IN: Thousands of casino workers cast ballots today and 96% have voted in favor of authorizing the worker negotiation committee to call a strike if an agreement is not reached with Caesars, Harrah’s, Tropicana, and Borgata, by July 1st and Hard Rock by July 3rd!
🎉 BREAKING: Workers have spoken. A new era of worker power begins NOW! 💥 We’re proud to announce April Verrett as SEIU’s new president! Together, we will take back workers’ power!
#ThisUnion
On Labor Day and every day, from the ballot box to the picket line, UNITE HERE members know it’s up to us to fight for the wages and health care we deserve, demand workload protections, and get out the vote for elected officials who truly stand with working people.
Estephania answered the call to leadership from
@UNITEHERE362
. She signed up 18 new members on her first day on a leave of absence from her Disney job. On young workers panel with
@IUBAC
.
@unitehere
#aflcioconvention
Today, voters across the U.S. head to the polls to vote in local and state elections that will determine who gets to be part of a post-COVID recovery—and whether together, we can all
#ComeBackStronger
. Major shout-out to all the UNITE HERE canvassers who threw down this cycle!”
Good morning from one of several UNITE HERE launch sites in Virginia! We're working until the final hours to make every vote for Democrats up-and-down the ticket count today. Let's go Blue!
"Feet on the ground and souls in play" says Nicole. With so many people thoroughly fed up with Democrats delivering nothing for working and low wealth people - this is what it takes to get people to vote.
@unitehere
and
@UNITEHEREPhilly
will make sure the Dems remember.
“We showed them this is what democracy looks like out here. We showed them what we could do if we put our minds to it, we put our feet on the ground, and we put our souls in play—we showed them.”
—Nicole Hunt, President, UNITE HERE Local 634
#VotersDecided
Nearly 30 years ago, Julie Su stood w/ immigrant workers in the garment industry to shut down sweatshops. As a successor union to the ILGWU, UNITE HERE con'ts to represent predominately women, immigrants, & ppl of color — workers like who Su cont's to stand w/ today.
#StandWithSu
On behalf of all our members of UNITE HERE, I wrote to Chair
@SenSanders
, Ranking Member
@SenBillCassidy
& Members of the Senate HELP Committee to convey our Union's enthusiastic support for Julie Su to serve as the next Secretary of the Department of Labor.
#StandWithSu
Georgia con ganas! Hats off to GLAHR and Mijente for their long term investment.
@GLAHR_
and
@ConMijente
knocked on every Latinx door in Georgia during the runoffs.
.
@GAConGANas
Executive Director
@GLAHRiana
speaks at the
@ngpaction
E-Day canvass launch about the wins we’ve achieved so far–voting out 2 racist sheriffs in Cobb & Gwinnett counties, & just last week, newly elected Sheriff Keybo Taylor ends 287g.
#GAconGanas
#Election2020
One year ago today, over 1,000 UNITE HERE housekeepers, cooks, dishwashers & airport workers—who are mostly women & people of color—wrapped up months of full-time canvassing in Georgia. It should have been a day to celebrate an extraordinary triumph for our union—
This election is crucial for worker rights in America. Protecting the gains we’ve made under the Biden-Harris admin, like the NLRB’s support for unions, is one reason UNITE HERE is knocking on doors & talking to voters.
We knocked on the doors of half a million voters in Philadelphia
We identified 30k people who wanted to vote
#bidenharris
As a union that organizes, we knew we had to step up.
#1u
Today, let's not forget this labor and what we have achieved together to create a more perfect Union.
Today, we celebrate the power of our solidarity and what we have done together to keep the spirit of Democracy alive.
THIS is what Democracy looks like.
It’s Joyce. Hannah. Melissa. Ron.
And 1,000 other UNITE HERE canvassers—& many others—who, in the face of loss & white nationalist terrorists...
As
@hartfordhilton
banquet worker Kim said, "If the Council approves the plan as it currently stands then most of us will lose our jobs forever."
We call on
@GovNedLamont
- don't give developers taxpayer money to fire us!
Couldn’t agree more. That’s why UNITE HERE canvassers have thousands of conversations a day with voters at their doors. That face-to-face experience is how we cut through the noise and organize people to our side — and to the ballot box.
I'm sick & tired of reading & hearing stories saying white working-class Americans are voting Republican because they feel Democrats betrayed them on economic issues
I wish those stories explained that on issue after issue Democrats want to do more to help workrs than Repubs do
We may have been 98% laid off at the peak of the pandemic, but we’re not going to sit around helplessly or hopelessly.
In the swing state of FL, we're doing the essential work to defend democracy. Canvassing is our opportunity to take back our power. It's how we
#TakeBack2020
.
🎂🎊Happy 85th Anniversary, Culinary Union! The demographics of Culinary Union members are approximately: 54% Latinx, 18% white, 15% Asian, 12% Black, and less than 1% Indigenous Peoples.
#Culinary85
Shout out to my friend
@GwenMillsUH
for leading one of the largest canvass operations for
#GaSen
runoff “And just last week, UNITE HERE launched a group of 500 canvassers that aims to knock on one million doors in Georgia”
With more than three-fourths of
@unitehere
members still out of work after being laid off from hotel and airport jobs, they had common ground with voters feeling crunched by the pandemic and its economic fallout.
What goes hand in hand 🙌? Transforming the economy to end inequality for frontline workers and for frontline communities bearing the brunt of climate change.
#EarthDay
Many of us lost our jobs during the pandemic.
But, 500 strong, we knocked on 300,000 doors in Philadelphia.
We contacted 30,000 voters who didn't vote in 2016.
Take it from us:
#EveryVoteCounts
#VotersDecide
Wanting to lift up
@AmericaVotes
for being a stalwart voice for why field campaigns are necessary - and saw
@HillaryHolley4
said exactly what I was thinking 🙌🙌
Let's be really clear how Dems got through these midterm elections:
The
@AmericaVotes
coalition knocked over 22m doors— far surpassing the total number of doors knocked during 2020. The coalition also made over 40m calls & sent over 37m texts.
“Over several weeks, SUN canvassed the Yale student body to spread awareness about the financial and mental health issues. Through these conversations, they collected over 650 photos and testimonies of Yale students who stand with the demands.”
We’ve never forgotten that, in addition to his anti-worker politics and policies, Donald Trump himself is a bad hotel boss. We’re well on our way to knocking on over 3.5 million doors in seven states to ensure voters know why their voices must be heard.