When it comes to open borders enthusiasm, few labor organizations are the match of the Las Vegas-based UNITE HERE Local 226. Representing around 60,000 hotel-casino and other employees in Las Vegas and Reno, the union for years has promoted illegal immigration as a means of building membership and bargaining power. That advocacy just might have […]
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Boston-Area UNITE HERE Secretary-Treasurer Sentenced
Hopefully, Henry Clay Green is getting counseling while serving time. On July 17, Green, former secretary-treasurer of UNITE HERE Local 26, was sentenced in Boston federal court to six months in prison and one year of supervised release for embezzling more than $170,000 in funds from the Medford, Mass.-based union, which represents certain hospitality employees […]
High-Living Ex-New Jersey HERE President Sentenced
David Feeback’s sybaritic ways as president of Local 69 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees ended several years ago. This August 23 he got the final bill: a year and a day in federal prison, and mandatory restitution of almost $90,000. Feeback, 43, headed the Secaucus, N.J.-based local during December 1997-September 2001. But his […]