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Over 1,600 janitors are currently on strike in Boston seeking health benefits, full-time work and higher pay. The Service Employees International Union has been in negotiations with cleaning contractors since the summer, and Boston’s more than 10,000 janitors have been working without a contract for over a month. The strike began on Monday night as workers refused to work and instead joined picket lines at buildings and campuses around Boston and its suburbs...
...janitors now on strike are risking their jobs and livelihoods. Unicco, Boston’s largest cleaning contractor, is already employing replacement workers. The desperation of those willing to cross a picket line for a paycheck speaks to the bravery of those who will strike. Living in conditions that can lead one to break a strike, it speaks volumes that so many janitors still decided to walk out. Additionally, that Unicco and other companies can find replacement workers underscores how little job security the striking janitors have. Despite all this, the number of janitors on strike is growing, as more...
...strike is part of the local union chapter’s desire to catch up to the wages and benefits of other major cities in the country. It is also the culmination of the National Student Week of Action against UNICCO. Yesterday was the group’s national call-in day to the janitorial company...
Harvard janitors established a separate contract last February and are not participating in the strike. Still, the rally enjoyed widespread support from other union members—hotel workers and iron workers from as far as Kansas City attended to show their solidarity...
...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...