Jobs at UNITE HERE

Boycott Coordinators

Locations: Anchorage, AK
Education: No minimum requirement
Salary: Depends on experience

In this time of economic crisis, be a part of a movement of low wage workers that is confronting corporate greed and mistreatment of workers, raising the standards of service sector jobs, and winning dignity and respect on the job through solidarity and action. With over 300,000 members in our International union, we are at the forefront of the battle for workers rights, immigration reform and living wages. Across the United States and Canada, our members (a majority of whom are women and immigrants) in the hotel industry are standing in solidarity to defend their standards against hotel corporations who are attempting to roll back hard-won decent wages, benefits and respect on the job. Additionally, non-union hotel workers are fighting for the right to organize free from management intimidation and retaliation.

Boycotts are a critical piece of our comprehensive campaigns in the hotel industry. We are looking for passionate, committed people who want to become full-time union boycott organizers.

Boycott Coordinators develop strategy to move customers from boycotted properties, work with worker committees and lead teams of volunteer activists to plan and carry out creative actions to help enforce boycotts. The work is typically 30% - Coordinating and executing creative actions at strategic locations to help enforce boycotts and 70% - Research and campaign related work.

Who we are:

UNITE HERE! is a labor union leading the fight to organize hundreds of thousands of low wage workers - many of them African-Americans, Latino and Asian immigrants, and women – in hotels, casinos, industrial laundries, institutional cafeterias, airport concessions, and apparel manufacturing, distribution, and retail facilities throughout North America.  Our union,  is at the forefront of battles for workers rights, immigrants’ rights and living wages.

Desired Qualifications:

• Applicants must be willing and able to travel to appropriate work sites;
• Must have passion for low wage and other worker struggles;
• Must have previous activist experience -- boycott experience a plus;
• Must be assertive and have excellent language, writing and computer skills.

Duties Include (but are not limited to):

• Researching hotel clients;
• Developing and carrying out strategy to move clients from hotels that are driving down industry standards;
• Recruiting/developing/maintaining volunteer committees;
• Working with community and labor allies;
• Coordinating actions such as leafleting, delegations and marches

How to apply:
Send cover letter, resume, and 1-3 pp. writing sample to Meg Robertson, mrobertson@unitehere.org. 

We will only respond to applicants who we want to interview.