2020
SUSSIE
LOZADA
POLITICAL DIRECTOR
UNITEHERE LOCAL 100
UNITEHERE Local 100��Sussie Lozada has been serving as the Political Director, and community
organizer at UNITEHERE Local 100. Lozada has intensely worked on improving the life
and working conditions for airline catering workers and their families. She has also worked on
a battleground State helping to elect Senator Sinema and defeating Sheriff Joe Alpaio in AZ,
and has worked on several local, Citywide, and State election campaigns.
Lozada founded Women for History and Women Organizing Neighborhood and was the
former Director of the New York Civic Participation Project. As an organizer, she has been
involved in winning many important campaign victories including the multi-million dollar renovation
of Fox Playground in the South Bronx; improved interpretation services at Columbia
Presbyterian Hospital; and improved community access to Riverbank State Park, among
others.
She has been part of citywide campaigns including the fi ght for access to drivers’ licenses for
undocumented New Yorkers; the campaign for Muslim school holidays; and efforts to improve
public education. The most recent victories include: Worker Retention Law for Food Service
Workers, Increase of $19��Minimum wage for all airport workers including Airline Catering, and
Minimum wages for tipped employees in NYS.
As an immigrant, feminist, single mother, and Latina Muslim, she has strongly believed in social
justice and the rights of women, immigrants, and workers.
SALUTE TO LABOR