Posted on 03/05/2010 11:00:30 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
At first, Minneapolis janitor Rosalina Gomez said she didn't realize she was cleaning up after the CEO of the bank that bought her foreclosed home in a September sheriff's sale.
"At the beginning I didn't know he was the guy," said Gomez through an interpreter in an interview with HuffPost. "I didn't know the relationship between my house and him. I saw him one time but never talked to him."
The guy is Richard Davis, CEO of Minneapolis-based US Bank, the nation's sixth-largest bank and recipient of $6.6 billion in TARP bailout funds. On Feb. 28, Davis was set to receive an "Executive of the Year" award from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal at a banquet -- 11 days before Gomez and her family had to comply with an eviction order.
The Service Employees International Union, of which Gomez is a member, could not resist the opportunity to draw attention to the soon-to-be-evicted woman cleaning up after one of the bankers taking her home away (US Bank is the trustee; Chase is the mortgage servicer). The SEIU began agitating for Gomez, an effort which dovetailed with a union campaign on behalf of area janitors fighting for a better contract.
"After they found out I was involved in the union activity, they assigned two security guards to follow me when I was cleaning," she said, adding that the guards helped her clean.
Gomez earns $26,000 a year ($12.97 an hour) working for a janitorial services company cleaning up after Davis. He earns more than $2 million a year.
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Hmmmmm.
So what?
So obviously she deserves more because she is capable of cleaning this guys house. After all she has the same education and skill set.
my thought exactly!
I consider $12.97 an hour to clean pretty good money.
...said Gomez through an interpreter in an interview with HuffPost.
Hmmmmm.
My thoughts exactly. Is she legal. And did she have an ACORN office help her with the loan papers?
So do I.
I don’t think many of the SEIU members are legal.
Class warfare/Heartless Banker cliche alert!
13 bucks an hour is a very respectable wage for a janitor.
Could we get some real questions asked buy a reporter?
BS BS BS TOTAL BS story.
Her hubby probably sells oranges on a street corner.
For someone who doesn't speak English, hell yes it is a good wage!
Numerous people weren’t aware or understand the process or type of loan they were getting.
Well , MSP and St.Paul are “sanctuary” cities.
“The monthly payment would jump by $100, and then it would jump again in six months. “
If $100 is enough to make the difference they couldn’t afford the house in the first place.
“I consider $12.97 an hour to clean pretty good money.”
Particularly if she;s illegal and pays no taxes, etc.
And if she does not speak English, do you expect she could read it?
I’m very surprised that we have not been forced and coerced into bi-lingual legal documents by now. It would seem to me that she could easly claim she could not understand what she was signing, so it should be set aside as null and void.
So far, this is not the case. But IMHO... that day will soon be here.
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