Cleve Jones Is Here to Recruit You — to Help Stop the GOP
advocate.comUNITE HERE International. We represent hundreds of thousands of hospitality, casino, airport, and food service workers across the U.S.
and Canada. Our members are mostly women of color, immigrants, and include many LGBTQ workers. For decades, UNITE HERE has fought for — and won — contracts with major employers that provide health care and protections against workplace discrimination and abuse for LGBTQ workers, even in the deep South and other states where no local or state legal protections exist.Two years ago, the COVID pandemic shut down the travel and hospitality industry.
Most of UNITE HERE’s members were laid off or furloughed. Some of the most vulnerable workers in our economy faced disaster as a bitterly divided nation approached the critical election of 2020.Despite the devastation of COVID, UNITE HERE led the largest union door-to-door canvassing operation in the country.
With 1,700+ out of work hotel housekeepers, cooks, and casino workers canvassing, we reached the doors of 3 million voters in the key battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida.UNITE HERE was the first organization to do door-to-door canvassing safely.
