32BJ SEIU Cleaners Ratify New Contract
Pittsburgh – Commercial office cleaners – members of 32BJ SEIU –overwhelmingly ratified a new four-year agreement with their employers over the weekend. The contract covers workers who clean and maintain buildings in downtown, the Strip District, Oakland and other East End neighborhoods. The deal calls for strong wage increases, maintains employer-paid healthcare, and increases […]
CLEANERS AND BUILDING SERVICE WORKERS UNANIMOUSLY VOTE TO RATIFY CONTRACT
PHILADELPHIA –On Saturday, 32BJ SEIU cleaners and building service workers voted to ratify a four-year contract covers nearly 3,000 workers who clean and maintain 120 commercial buildings in Philadelphia. The contract contains strong wage gains, maintains employer-paid health insurance, an increase in pension contributions and language improvements including provisions that help keep employees safe in […]
Mayor Peduto Joins Strip District 32BJ Cleaners to Demand Wage Equity
–weeks before contract expiration, workers demand all cleaning contractors pay a living wage- Pittsburgh – 32BJ SEIU cleaners will be joined by Mayor Bill Peduto, Councilwoman Deb Gross, Councilwoman Erika Strassburger, State Sen. Lindsey Williams (D -38), and City Council candidate Bobby Wilson on Thursday, October 17 at 2:30 p.m. in the Strip District at […]
STRIKE AVERTED FOR JANITORS AT 1,200 OFFICE BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT DC, MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA
Just Hours before Expiration, Cleaners Reach Tentative Agreement with Employers For a Contract Covering 10,500 Jobs Washington, D.C. –32BJ SEIU, which represents 10,500 commercial office cleaners in the D.C. area and Baltimore have reached a tentative agreement for a new four-year contract with the Washington Service Contractors Association, which represents the area’s major commercial cleaning companies. […]
Thousands of Janitors will take to the Streets to Rally for a Fair Contract
Massive Crowd Marches to Rittenhouse Square to Demand their Share of Center City’s Prosperity Philadelphia – Joined by Mayor Jim Kenney, more than a thousand members of the property service workers union, 32BJ SEIU will fill the streets of Philadelphia on Thursday at 12:00pm to demand that cleaners and other building service workers are able to care for their […]
1,500 32BJ SEIU Cleaners Open Bargaining with Employers
-Union cleaners demand to earn a piece of Pittsburgh’s ever-growing prosperity- Pittsburgh – Negotiations opened Wednesday afternoon inside the Omni William Penn for nearly 1,500 cleaners- 32BJ SEIU members – with representatives of commercial cleaning contractors from the commercial real estate industry. While downtown and the strip district are some of the hottest commercial real […]
With D.C.’s Gentrification Debate Raging, 10,000 Immigrant Janitors Start Contract Talks in Push to Join the Middle Class
MoCo and Arlington Workers seek full-time hours that lead to full-time pay and employer-paid health care Washington, D.C. – 32BJ SEIU janitors, who maintain nearly all of the region’s commercial office buildings worth an estimated $13 billion, will begin negotiations todat for a new union contract that expires on October 15 with the Washington Service […]
DELAWARE CLEANERS RALLY FOR $15 MINIMUM WAGE
DE workers rally as thousands across the country commemorate Justice for Janitors Day in supporting the struggle of low-wage workers to improve their lives. WILMINGTON, De-As the Delaware state legislature this week considers a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, commercial office cleaners, joined by elected officials and supporters will […]
Thousands of Cleaners in New York City Commemorate Historic Fight for Janitors
Justice for Janitors events across the country highlight and support struggle of low-wage workers to improve their lives. New York – Thousands of 32BJ SEIU commercial office cleaners in New York and along the East Coast — from Stamford, Connecticut to Washington, D.C. – rallied today to commemorate a key moment in the historic Justice for […]
32BJ Members and Allies Protest Cleaners Kicked to the Curb by Unfair Contractor
New York – Scores of 32BJ members, accompanied by elected officials and community members, rallied to support a crew of ten cleaners at a midtown commercial building who in two days are losing the health insurance they have had for years, even decades, after having their good wages and benefits cut by an unfair contractor. […]