UNITE HERE Internship!

Last Chance to... Viva la Summer!

Across North America, hotel workers are rising – organizing to lift one another out of poverty. Housekeepers, dishwashers, cooks are standing together to win the right to organize a union and improve their lives.

But they need you – your energy, your education, your enthusiasm – to join them in that fight this summer. Viva La Summer!

With only a few weeks before the deadline, UNITE HERE is offering a six-week, paid Hotel Workers Rising Internship for passionate student leaders who will spend their summer in the struggle for justice. Internship sites will be based in major cities and metropolitan areas across the U.S. and Canada and include:

Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco Boston Miami Philadelphia Baltimore Indianapolis Seattle

San Diego San Jose Washington, D.C. North Virginia North New Jersey Monterey, CA Rochester, NY Toronto, ON, Canada

The Hotel Workers Rising Internship will run in two sessions:
June 2nd-July 11th, 2008 and July 21st-August 29th, 2008

Participants can typically expect to earn $450.00 per week.
Participants are responsible for their own housing.

For more information, email summerinternship@unitehere.org

Application Deadline: March 23, 2008.