The corporations that employ our members do not limit their business to North America alone. Many have operations or are headquartered internationally. To represent the North American employees of these giant multi-nationals effectively, UNITE HERE partners with unions and workers across the globe who deal with many of the same employers.

UNITE HERE has built strong working partnerships with unions worldwide, that helps us negotiate effectively for current members, and organize new members.

The benefit of international collaboration in dealing with labor issues locally and worldwide cannot be underestimated.

Workers around the world have similar goals – fair wages, affordable health care, rights and respect on the job. They also want independent, democratic, member-driven unions through which these goals can be achieved. By connecting workers globally in the same industries and with the same employers, those goals can become a reality.

Unions in different countries representing workers in one corporation achieve more by acting together.

On this page you will find links to Global Union Federations to which we are affiliated, information on global campaigns for workers’ rights and other issues with international significance.

Global Union Federations

• International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)

• International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)

• UNI services

Information/News on Global Campaigns

• Labourstart: www.labourstart.org

Other Sites of Interest

• International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

• International Labour Organization (ILO)

• Labourstart: www.labourstart.org

Hyatt Campaign

• Yogyakarta workers begin campaign for bargaining rights and job security at Hyatt Hotels Indonesia

Solidarity with UNITE HERE from around the Globe

• New Zealand Food & Service Workers Union Magazine solidarity article about Delaware North, "From Nashville to Wellywood the Song is "Solidarity Forever": (pdf: scroll to page 22)

• Novotel

  • Vale Inco, Accor: International Solidarity in Canada’s Capital!: Striking members of the United Steelworkers from Sudbury join the Ottawa and District Labour Council and members of UNITE HERE Local 261 in a rally to support hotel workers seeking to form a union at the Novotel Ottawa hotel. Workers at two Novotel hotels have been terminated, or lost shifts or hours, after becoming public union supporters. 

  • Video: Canadian Novotel hotel workers 

  • Novotel workers in Ontario, Canada speak about the company's reaction to their organizing drive

  • Letter delivered by community leaders in Toronto, Canada to French Consul General regarding Novotel workers' organizing drive
    

  • Letter from Chair of North York Community Council RE: Organizing drive at Novotel North York
    (translated into French)

  • Letter signed by 22 Toronto City Councilors regarding organizing drives at Toronto-area Novotels

  • Letter from Councilor Pam McConnell to Accor Canada RE: Toronto-area Novotel organizing drives

  • Video: Federal NDP leader Jack Layton and Ottawa and District Labour Council President Sean McKenny report to Novotel Ottawa workers on a visit with Accor Canada management (April 14th)

  • Letter of support signed by members of Accor's European Works Council (with EWC support letter attached)

Women hotel workers in Cambodia fight illegal mass firings

• Workers unfairly terminated for trade union organizing at the five star Angkor Village Hotel and Angkor Village Botanical Resort Hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia, are fighting for their rights, their jobs and their union - and need your support.

CONTACT

Debbie Anderson, Director, International Affairs Department danderson@unitehere.org