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Higher Education

Compass: Carnegie Mellon University

8/01/2021 – 8/31/2024

Higher Education

Compass Food Service: University of Pittsburgh

3/01/2022 – 2/28/2025

Higher Education

Parkhurst Food Service: Duquesne University

3/01/2022 – 2/28/2025

Higher Education

University of Pittsburgh Agreement

1/01/2021 – 12/31/2024

Higher Education

Following a Tough Fight, Over 700 custodians at Harvard Ratify Strong Contract with 15.25% Raises in Time for the Holidays

By Kim Adsitt

Cambridge, MA—On Friday, December 17–in a major victory for the essential workers who keep the richest University in the world running each and every day–Harvard custodians voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first new contract with the University since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The strong four-year agreement—which Harvard and the bargaining committee tentatively settled on […]

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STRIKE AVERTED: NY/NJ Airport Workers Ratify New Contract

By Kim Adsitt

Versión en español por abajo STRIKE AVERTED: NY/NJ Airport Workers Ratify New Contract The newly ratified contract includes improved health & safety regulations and discrimination protections; thousands received healthcare on July 1 New York — After negotiations that lasted over three months, a committee representing more than 10,000 mostly-Black and immigrant airport workers across John

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32BJ SEIU & the Maintenance Contractors of New England Sign Contract Extension during Justice for Janitors Week

By Kim Adsitt

32BJ SEIU & the Maintenance Contractors of New England Sign Contract Extension during Justice for Janitors Week Essential Workers & their Employers Reach Hopeful Milestone As Mass. State of Emergency Expires *Interviews with members and leadership available upon request* Boston, MA.–On Wednesday—a day after Massachusetts’ state of emergency officially expired and weeks after Governor Baker

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Essential Workers at High-End Jersey City Residential Condo Building Strike Over Attempts by Employer to Slash their Wages in the Middle of Pandemic

By Kim Adsitt

Jersey City, NJ – Residential workers at a condo high-rise with million-dollar apartments walked off the job this morning on a strike to protest the condo board’s bad faith bargaining in the middle of a pandemic. “We understand that, as essential workers, the residents of the building need us to keep them safe and

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Essential Workers at 2 High-End Manhattan Residential Building Strike Over Illegal Harassment from Employer as They Fight for Essential Pay and Benefits

By Kim Adsitt

New York, NY – Residential workers at two high-end buildings in the West Side of Manhattan who are employees of Planned companies, a building services contractor, walked off the job on Thursday morning, taking the unprecedented step to strike while the COVID-19 pandemic rages through the city. Almost a dozen workers from the Upper West Side

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32BJ SEIU New York Security Members Open Bargaining on Contract Renewal for 14,000 Officers

By Kim Adsitt

— Workers Fight to Improve Wages and Benefits, Protect Employer-Paid Health Insurance and Other Industry Gains— NEW YORK—Elected bargaining committees representing 14,000 security officers who protect major public and private buildings around New York City and are members of SEIU 32BJ will sit across from employers today at union headquarters in the first of

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Hudson Valley and Fairfield County Janitors Approve Four-Year Accord

By Kim Adsitt

Deal boosts wages, protects benefits, and improves workplace rules for 3,000 cleaners in large commercial buildings STAMFORD, Conn. — Four days before the expiration of their current union contract, hundreds of commercial building cleaners unanimously voted to approve a new agreement at meetings in Port Chester, NY, this morning and Stamford, CT, this afternoon. The

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STRIKE AVERTED Hudson Valley/Fairfield County Janitors Reach Tentative Contract Agreement

By Kim Adsitt

Deal includes fair wage increase & protects health benefits for 3,000 janitors STAMFORD, Conn. — In a Stamford Marriott meeting room this afternoon, a union bargaining committee representing over 3,000 janitors in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and the lower Hudson Valley, New York, reached a tentative contract agreement with an industry group representing cleaning contractors and

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*STRIKE AVERTED Hartford and New Haven Janitors Approve Four-Year Accord

By Kim Adsitt

Deal includes fair wage increase & protects health benefits for 2,400 janitors; Stamford bargaining continues HARTFORD, Conn. — At meetings today in Hartford, New Haven, and New Britain, hundreds of commercial building cleaners unanimously voted to approve a new union contract, thereby averting a strike in the new year. The vote ratifies a tentative agreement

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New Jersey Janitors Vote to Ratify Contract

By Kim Adsitt

Massive strike averted as janitors, employers came to an agreement on Dec. 18. NEWARK, N.J. – On Saturday, thousands of 32BJ SEIU janitors voted to ratify a four-year contract that covers 7,000 workers who clean and maintain 500 commercial office buildings, schools, malls and transit centers in the state of New Jersey. The

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