STATEMENT OF MAYOR HEATHER FARGO ON NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN JANITORS AND BUILDING OWNERS AND MANAGERS

"I ask our corporate leaders and City partners to ensure that janitors’ hard work is rewarded with the opportunity to provide a future for their families by ensuring that janitors who work full time earn wages that provide an opportunity to secure decent housing for themselves and their families and guarantee quality, affordable health care for janitors and their families."

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Janitors Overwhelmingly Approve New Contract with Higher Wages, Improved Access to Family Healthcare, Other Benefits

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Silicon Valley / Bay Area Contract Summary

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Striking Janitors to Connect Cisco CEO Chambers with Senator McCain’s Pursuit of Latino Vote in New Paid Advertisement

John McCain - Guadaloupe Herrera Ad

The ad, scheduled to run in Spanish language newspapers this week, reads, “Senator McCain, courting the Latino vote begins at home.  Tell your corporate backers like Cisco CEO John Chambers to ensure that hard-working Latinos earn a decent wage” and features the story of a Latino janitor at Cisco who is on strike.

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Obama Statement In Support of Striking Bay Area Janitors

Senator Obama today released the following statement in support of striking Bay Area janitors.

“As thousands of Bay Area janitors continue their courageous fight to win a higher standard of living for themselves and their families, I offer my support.”

“It’s thanks to the bravery and sacrifice of these workers—and union men and women before them—that we've made progress in the fight to ensure that every American has rights on the job and the chance to improve their lives.”

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400 Janitors Descend on Cisco Corporate Campus, March in Streets

400 janitors march at Cisco in San Jose

On the fourth day of a growing Bay Area strike, four hundred janitors were joined by faith and community leaders at a demonstration at Cisco Systems today as they called on the hi-tech industry powerhouse to support good jobs with adequate health care for all workers and their families. Janitors held a spirited rally and picketed briefly before leading a march through areas of Cisco’s sprawling corporate campus that periodically held up traffic in areas of San Jose and Milpitas.

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Striking Janitors Call on Intel to Support Workers’ Efforts to Win Good Jobs, Health Care for All

Demonstration at Intel Shareholders Meeting

“Responsible investors are troubled by evidence that certain companies are unable to recognize and fairly reward the value provided by the most vulnerable workers, because it reveals a poor understanding of where value lies within a corporation."

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Janitors Reach Tentative Agreement on Wages, Benefits, Four-Year Pact

LA County Janitors Reach Agreement

LOS ANGELES 5/12/2008– Janitors announced a major breakthrough in contract negotiations at a press conference with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villagraigosa and Robert F. Maguire III, CEO of Maguire Properties, Inc. at City Hall today. For the first time ever, 6,700 janitors in Los Angeles and Orange counties will have one master contract. Previously, there were two separate contracts for each county that both expired April 30. Janitors reached tentative agreement for Los Angeles County this afternoon.

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