Anand Singh

Anand Singh is President of UNITE HERE Local 2, representing over 13,000 hospitality workers in San Francisco and San Mateo counties. Shortly after graduating from UC Berkeley in 2002, Mr. Singh attended an AFL-CIO organizing training, where he met worker-leaders who reminded him of his parents — immigrants from Bihar, India — and who inspired him to pursue a career in the labor movement.

Mr. Singh initially worked as a community organizer before joining Local 2 as the organizer of the Mark Hopkins Hotel ahead of the five-day strike and lockout of 2004. From 2013 to 2015, he led the local’s food service division through successful strikes at the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark and San Francisco International Airport. Mr. Singh was elected president in 2015, the first in Local 2’s history to be a person of color. He led the union during a 2018 contract fight with Marriott, when nearly 2,500 Local 2 members went on strike at seven Marriott hotels, winning groundbreaking contracts under the slogan “One Job Should Be Enough.”