During the 2011 Legislative session, Local 226 founded an organization called Nevada Students Unite Here.
The economic benefits don't outweigh other concerns, said Melissa Mason, legislative liaison for Unite Here!
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It is easy to understand why UNITE HERE has been at the forefront of the immigration debate.
Just take a look at the national boycott of Hyatt hotels started yesterday by UNITE HERE.
Unite Here, a union representing 450, 000 members, has waged an unsuccessful four-year campaign with the Teamsters to organize Cintas workers.
Unite Here, which represents about three-quarters of Hyatt's unionized workers in North America, battled the company for years over workplace conditions.
One union, Unite Here, has targeted Ms. Pritzker and her family's Hyatt hotel chain, enlisting the Obama Labor Department in an 18-month investigation of alleged worker-safety violations.
Further, the lengthy analysis provided by Unite Here suggested that the KRS real estate investment consultant may have received compensation related to certain specifically identified KRS real estate investments.
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Last July, a group of labor leaders, including Obama ally and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, joined Unite Here at a news conference in Washington, where Unite Here called for a global boycott of Hyatt Hotels.
This 2009 report by the Public Review Board of Unite Here, formed under a previous consent agreement, says that at the height of the dispute UNITE leaders may have conspired to deprive HERE members of their right to elect their own representatives.
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The addendum to my report sent to the SEC indicated that my client, Mr. Christopher Tobe, a former trustee of the Kentucky Retirement System, had recently received substantial information from an international labor union, Unite Here, indicating that a real estate investment consultant retained by KRS to provide objective advice to the pension received compensation from real estate investment managers it recommended, including placement agent fees.
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