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...largest cleaning company in Boston, and the most intransigent in its opposition to the janitors??€™ demands, is UNICCO. It employs over half of the 10,000 janitors currently seeking a new contract. Although six contractors have signed an interim agreement with the janitors that would give them health care and full-time work, UNICCO remains openly defiant, employing hundreds of replacement workers as strikebreakers and continuing an ad campaign aimed at discrediting the janitors and their union. UNICCO is widely despised by Boston janitors for their abusive employment practices...
...there is growing pressure on UNICCO to agree to the janitors??€™ demands. Two weeks ago, Acting Governor Jane Swift announced that UNICCO will lose its contract to clean the State House if it does not meet the janitors??€™ demands. Earlier in the strike, the California Public Employees’ pension fund decided to terminate UNICCO’s contract in a Boston building which it is part-owner, and it is considering doing the same in two Washington buildings where it is majority owner...
...janitors??€™ demands are completely reasonable. Many of Boston’s janitors live hand-to-mouth, working two or three part time jobs to support themselves and their families. A part time job can pay as little as $39 per shift. Those jobs are often for the same cleaning contractor or for more than one contractor covered by the Boston master contract. Such a lifestyle is hardly part time; between several jobs, janitors often work more hours than a full time job but receive none of the benefits of full time work. Their schedules leave them little...
Tensions have escalated since the SEIU contract ended August 31. Last month, four Harvard students were arrested at the Prudential Center while protesting janitors??€™ lack of benefits...
...strike began with a rally at Northeastern University—which employs UNICCO janitors??€”where students, janitors and community supporters demanded that university officials issue a statement supporting the janitors...