Raising Standards for Baltimore Security
Private security officers in Baltimore are launching a new campaign to improve standards for nearly 1,000 workers citywide who earn as little as $9 an hour, drastically below Baltimore’s Living Wage of $10.59. Officers who work in Baltimore are over three times more likely than all people who work in Baltimore to receive public health [...]
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Private security officers in Baltimore are launching a new campaign to improve standards for nearly 1,000 workers citywide who earn as little as $9 an hour, drastically below Baltimore’s Living Wage of $10.59. Officers who work in Baltimore are over three times more likely than all people who work in Baltimore to receive public health [...]
The janitors at Fort Belvoir deserve to have their rights at work protected, and they deserve a fair contract. Please sign up to show your support.
Janitors at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center are committed to ensuring that our nation’s veterans have safe and sanitary rooms. But federal cleaning contractor Escab Enterprises has failed to honor its commitments to these workers. Escab paid the workers days late, and has yet to pay for their pension and health benefits. These [...]
We’re working to pass a law in Montgomery County, Md. that would protect low-wage workers’ jobs for a set period of time after a new cleaning contractor comes into a building or it is sold. We’ve passed similar laws in New York City and Washington, D.C.
The fight is on to defend the DREAM Act in Maryland, which gives undocumented students a shot at the American Dream by allowing those who grew up in the state to pay in-state tuition at colleges and universities. Anti-immigrant groups are trying to overturn the law through a ballot initiative in the November elections. We’re [...]
In the last five years, private security officers protecting D.C.’s commercial office buildings have won the fight to join the union – and today a majority of this part of the industry is 32BJ. That’s showing results: In July, we won a new contract that includes yearly pay raises and keeps our healthcare secure. Our [...]
