'Justice for Janitors' Leads to Contract

More than 1,200 Cincinnati janitors have reached a tentative agreement for their first-ever city-wide union contract with the area's eight largest cleaning companies, following 11th hour negotiations to avert a strike, according to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Details of the agreement, which includes gains in pay and access to health care, will be presented to janitors for ratification at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The agreement was reached after two days of contract talks between janitors and their employers that ran until nearly 2 a.m. this morning. SEIU reports.

CityBeat will have details Saturday.

— Gregory Flannery
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Comments

[Randy Simes]

This is exactly what unions are there for. They stood together as a collective unit and made some gains in the workplace as a collective unit. Way to go!