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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...
...Tonight, instead of picking up their brooms, they’re picking up their picket signs,” said Cynthia R. Kain, a spokesperson for the Service Employers International Union (SEIU), which represents the 11,000 janitors employed in the Boston area...
...SEIU members say benefits for all workers would encourage employers to hire full-time employees. Full-time workers on the whole receive slightly higher wages than part-time workers. UNICCO contends that a full-time workforce would result in part-time employees being laid...
...doesn’t matter if you make $10 an hour, [but] only work four hours a night. It’s about having enough for people to live on,” said Andrew G. Gaitan, an SEIU organizer...
...SEIU Deputy Trustee Rocio Saenz applauded the new contract as “a great step on workers’ rights...