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  • Advocates Urge Justice for Janitors

    02/08/2006 1:56:21 PM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 2 replies · 121+ views
    Madison.com ^ | February 8, 2006 | Pat Schneider
    (Accuse CleanPower of interfering with union talks among its workers at American Family Insurance...) Worker advocates are calling on American Family Insurance to prevent what they say are attempts by its cleaning company to stop janitors at American Family's Madison headquarters from organizing. As part of the Justice for Janitors movement, the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice of South Central Wisconsin is calling on the insurance giant to stop CleanPower, a large Wisconsin janitorial service company, from interfering with efforts by the Service Employees International Union to organize the janitors.A letter expressing surprise at anti-labor tactics at American Family's headquarters...
  • It's time for justice for janitors--Give workers here a living wage

    10/25/2005 4:34:18 PM PDT · by SJackson · 53 replies · 940+ views
    Capital Times ^ | October 25, 2005 | Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice
    We have all heard about sweatshops that pay poverty wages and subject workers to inhumane conditions. We worry that the clothing from our favorite store has been sewn by teenagers locked in factories in China or that the Sulawesi coffee at our local roaster has been picked by workers earning pennies a day. But we really don't need to look so far to see this pattern play out. It happens right here in Madison - one need look no farther than the commercial cleaning industry. It used to be that janitors worked directly for the companies or owners where they...