VALARIE LONG
VICE-PRESIDENT

Valarie Long is Vice President of 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union -- the largest property services union in the country with more than 100,000 property service workers in 8 states and the District of Columbia. Union members are security officers, window cleaners, superintendents, doormen, maintenance workers, porters and cleaners in commercial office buildings, stadiums and arenas, public schools and universities.

Valarie directs union operations for the 32BJ's multi-state region, including the DC Capital Area which serves 15,000 members in Maryland, Washington D.C., and Virginia, as well as another 15,000 in Pennsylvania. The union is leading efforts to win increased training, living wages, and better benefits for the predominantly African-American private security officers who protect commercial office buildings in Washington, DC and for other security officers in Washington, DC as well as Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Wilmington.

In collaboration with the SEIU Justice for Janitors campaign, the DC Capital Area District - formerly Local 82 - led a 10-year fight in Washington, D.C. to bring better wages, benefits and respect on the job to the workers who clean buildings throughout the nation's capitol.
Under Valarie's leadership as president of the local, 5,000 new property service workers joined the union in DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.

A 25 year veteran of the labor movement, Valarie serves as a Vice President of SEIU.

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