Service + Solidarity Spotlight: UNITE HERE Holds Week of Action for Airline Catering Workers

Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.

Members of UNITE HERE held a week of action last week targeting their employer, Gate Gourmet, an airline catering company. Workers at 11 locations across the United States held coordinated actions, many of them in partnership with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union-UFCW (RWDSU-UFCW) and the Teamsters (IBT). Actions ranged from customer leafleting to legislative lobbying to holding picket lines. Together, the union members who work for Gate Gourmet are demanding better health care, fair wages, safety on the job and a reasonable workload.