Photo Slideshow – Solidarity Actions Yesterday 12/29
Also lovely “thank you” videos to our friends at other SEIU Local Unions. We’ll be there for you!
Check out the highlights from the big events this week! Thousands of 32BJ members joined together to demonstrate our determination to fight for good jobs.
Pledge Your Support for Office Cleaners
Check out the photos from yesterday’s march and rally. We were all over the news last night, and we sent the strong message that we will not let employers push back our pay, benefits and rights on the job!
Pledge Your Support for NYC Office Cleaners
Here are some of the photos 32BJ building cleaners have taken of their coworkers outside their buildings.
More than 150 building cleaners representing 7,000 cleaners in New Jersey converged upon the Hilton at Newark Penn Station on Tuesday for the opening of contract talks with employers. The current contract expires at the end of the year.
Baltimore, MD – Baltimore City Councilman-elect Nick Mosby and Baltimore City Councilman Bill Cole today took a stand for nearly 12,000 of the region’s office cleaners, calling on industry leaders to agree to a fair contract for the workers and avoid a strike that could hurt the region. Just days ago, the region’s cleaning workers voted to authorize their union’s bargaining committee to call a strike, if necessary.
Councilmen Rally with Hundreds of Office Cleaners in Baltimore, MD 10.05.2011
Rally today in Philadelphia! We are demonstrating for the good jobs we need to support our families, and which our nation needs to regain its footing after the worst economic crisis to hit in a generation. We are all standing together on the same day in this fight for good jobs because the contracts for some 150,000 building service workers, including 60,000 in 32BJ Districts, will soon be expiring from coast to coast.
UPDATE 10/04/2011: Video
UPDATE, 11:21 AM 9/28/2011:
Incoming photos on Flickr: Philadelphia Commercial Contract Rally 09.28.2011
To add your photos, email us: photos@seiu32bj.org!
Here are what some people are saying on Twitter:
@seiu: RT @elizaj: Goodbye, Philly! Awesome rally with @32BJ_SEIU members! One union! PHOTOS posted: http://t.co/r4Cv8xnU
@green4philly: At the SEIU 32BJ rally in Dilworth Plaza. http://t.co/BWBaotzB
@tanyalias: We got thousands in the street – hey corporations do your part! #j4j http://t.co/Deg1n0zD
You can follow rallies in Philly and 22 other cities on twitter: Search for #j4j (Justice 4 Janitors) on Twitter
Update, 5:49 PM: Press Coverage is starting to roll in –
UPDATE, 5:55 PM 9/28/2011:
More photos, press, and social media coverage of the rallies.
UPDATE, 11:21 AM 9/28/2011:
Incoming photos on Flickr: GOOD JOBS RALLY IN PHILLY To add your photos, email us: photos@seiu32bj.org!
On September 28 in Philadelphia — and in As we go to the negotiating table to fight for good jobs, we do so knowing that this fight is part of a larger campaign for the good jobs across our country needs.
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Update, 9/27/2011: 22 cities!
On September 22, members of 32BJ rallied in Silver Spring, Maryland to support a fair contract. Negotiations began on September 8, 2011 for more than 1,500 contracted cleaners in Montgomery County, Maryland.
4,000 Cleaners Demand Wage Increases from Region’s Strongest Office Markets
Arlington, VA (9/20/2011) — Nearly one hundred mostly immigrant office cleaners rallied on Tuesday to ask for their chance to share in the American Dream. The workers, who earn as little as $9 an hour, called upon Northern Virginia’s commercial real estate industry to share the wealth that was created with the workers’ help, a move that would benefit the local economy as well as working families.
Photos on Flickr: Northern Virginia Office Cleaners Rally for Good Jobs, Strong Communities
