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United States Postal Service workers other than letter carriers. APWU: International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) 1918 331,003 Professional firefighters and emergency medical service workers. 2021: IAFF: UNITE HERE: 2004 301,886 [4] Hotel, casino, restaurant, and commercial food service workers and garment manufacturing employees.
Matthew Josephson, Union house, union bar; the history of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, AFL–CIO (New York: Random House, 1956). Dorothy Sue Cobble, "Organizing the Postindustrial Work Force: Lessons from the History of Waitress Unionism," Industrial and Labor Relations Review (April 1991): 419–436.
The workers struck and won a contract—the first union contract for workers at a Chinese restaurant in New York City. Unhappy with HERE, however, the workers disaffiliated in 1980 and formed the Chinese Staff and Workers' Association. The former HERE affiliate, Local 318 Restaurant Workers Union, became part of CSWA. [3] [5] [7] [18]
The group was founded with funding from multiple foundations with a stated goal to “organize all unorganized restaurant workers in New York City.” [3] ROC-NY was founded by immigration attorney Saru Jayaraman and Windows on the World waiter Fekkak Mamdouh and other restaurant workers who survived the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 [3] to provide support for the ...
UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with roughly 300,000 active members. [1] The union's members work predominantly in the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries.
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The Industrial Workers of the World led an organizing campaign in the mid-2000s based in New York City that did not result in union recognition. In December 2021, the Elmwood Avenue store in Buffalo became the first location in the United States to unionize in the 2020s.