Jobs at UNITE HERE

Boycott Coordinator

Department/Unit: Organizing
Locations: Numerous locations across the United States and Canada including: Anchorage, AK, Baltimore, MD, Los Angeles, CA, San Diego, CA, San Francicso, CA, and San Jose, CA.
Education: No minimum requirement
Salary: $695.00/week and benefits
Reports to: Boycott Director

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. We are looking for passionate, committed people who want to become full-time union boycott organizers.

Desired Qualifications:

• Applicants must be willing and able to relocate and/or 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 and resume to Lisa Jaicks at ljaicks@unitehere.org

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