12. CONFRONTATIONAL
ACTIONS
SOLIDARITY
ACTIONS
Strike
Inside Tactics / Work to Rule
Handbill
Informational Pickets
March into Work Together
Lunchtime Rally
One Minute Stand Up on the Job
Petitions
Same Color T-Shirts
Pressure on the employer should increase or escalate with each action.
Boycott
Mass Rallies
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SEIU Local #
Issue #
Date
Justice for Janitors
CONTRACTACTION
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Watch out for
Management’s
“Divide and
Conquer” Tactics
When management starts
spending their resources to
try to undermine workers’
unity, you know you’ve got
the bosses scared.
About a week ago,
management started
circulating petitions at some
downtown buildings aimed at
convincing workers to leave
the union under provisions in
a 14-year old Supreme
Court ruling called the
“Beck” decision.
“It’s no surprise the
contractors are trying to
divide us,” said ????, a
janitor at ??, where the
management petitions were
circulated. “They see us
getting stronger and more
united every day – and
they’re afraid of what we can
win.
“We sent a strong message
back to management at our
building. We got word
around that this was a boss
tactic to undercut our chance
to get a better contract – and
not one member signed.”
Our Union Contract Proposal
Highlights Affordable Family
Health Insurance, Full-Time
Work Opportunities, Better Pay
Management’s Offer
Would Freeze Our Pay
and Benefits
On Thursday, June 26, more than
100 members on our Contract Action
Team participated in our second
round of negotiations for a new and
improved Master Contract. Our
team is standing strong for the
priorities that members identified in
contract surveys last winter:
!" Affordable family health insurance and other benefit
improvements – including paid sick leave, better pensions, and
more vacation time.
!" Full-time work opportunities for workers who want full-time hours.
!" Better wages.
!" A fair hiring process that gives immigrant workers more time to
correct their papers.
!" Job security protections when building owners change cleaning
contractors at our worksites or when cleaning companies try to
transfer us to another worksite with no reason.
Management’s proposal includes no pay increases and no
improvement in our health insurance benefits. Instead,
management’s proposal focuses on adding new reasons to discipline or
fire workers.
We plan to continue bargaining until management presents a decent
proposal. But our success largely will depend on continued
membership unity and participation in actions at the worksite and in the
streets.
Get ready to rally. A big turnout at our Health Care Rally next
week will help show management that they need to start addressing our
issues in bargaining instead of demanding pay and benefit freezes.
CAT representatives and stewards will be providing details soon.
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