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3/01/2022 – 2/28/2025

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Nearly 200 Terminal Cleaners at Reagan National Airport Authorize Strike

Washington, D.C. –Nearly 200 Reagan National Airport cleaners have authorized a strike against their employer, MBS, a Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (MWAA) contractor, if necessary to protest a lack of affordable health care and income that doesn’t keep up with MWAA’s living wage. The vote comes as American Airlines and 32BJ SEIU enter into last […]

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Federal Agency Orders Airline Contractor to Reinstate Wheelchair Attendant at Dulles International Airport and Provide Back Pay

Washington, D.C. – A Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board has found that the Huntleigh Corporation fired a Dulles International Airport wheelchair attendant in retaliation for her participation in a 2016 strike to protest Huntleigh’s poverty wages. The NLRB will seek reinstatement for Swartha Tujare and an estimated $8,000 in back pay from December

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32BJ SEIU Statement on the Deportation of Liliana Cruz Mendez

The following statement is attributable to 32BJ SEIU Vice President Jaime Contreras. The overwhelming majority of 32BJ’s 18,000 property service workers in the D.C. Metropolitan Area and Baltimore are immigrants from Central and South America. The deportation of Liliana Cruz Mendez is not only unprincipled and unnecessary but it’s completely un-American. As one of the

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Low-Wage Workers Celebrate Baltimore Mayor’s Signature of Bill to Protect Workers’ Who Lose Their Jobs When Service Contracts Change

Baltimore, MD – On Thursday, Mayor Pugh signed the Displaced Service Workers Protection Ordinance into law, which will provide contracted service workers with temporary job protections when their employer’s service contract is terminated. “Low-wage workers in Baltimore are grateful for Councilwoman Sneed and President Jack Young’s leadership on this modest and commonsense measure to protect men and women

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32BJ SEIU Mourns Loss of Former D.C. Council Member Jim Graham

“Immigrants and low-wage workers in the District are mourning the loss of one their most passionate and reliable champions,” said Jaime Contreras, a 32BJ Vice President. “From living wages for security officers and paid sick leave for all District residents to low-income housing, language access rights and expansion of health insurance coverage for immigrants, Graham

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32BJ SEIU Condemns Maryland Governor Hogan’s Veto of Paid Sick Leave Legislation

“By forcing workers to have to make hard decisions on matters of life or death, financial ruin or stability, Hogan is channeling the spirit of Trump right here in Maryland,” said Jaime Contreras, Vice President of 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union. “Paid sick leave is common sense policy supported by an overwhelming majority

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One Week after Historic Wage Increase, Dulles and Reagan National Contracted Airport Workers Will Walk off the Job on Strike on Thursday

Washington, D.C. –Hundreds of contracted service workers at Reagan National Airport and Dulles will walk off the job on strike Thursday, to protest federal labor violations charged against their employer, Huntleigh Corporation, including surveilling, interrogating, arbitrarily disciplining a worker and firing a worker for lawfully protected activities. Just last week, the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority

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DC Paid Family Leave Coalition Applauds DC Council Passage of Paid Family and Medical Leave, Calls on Mayor to Sign Bill

Washington, DC—Today the DC Council passed the Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act 9 to 4, giving DC workers eight weeks of parental leave, six weeks of family leave and two weeks of medical leave. The DC Paid Family Leave Coalition and small business owners have been urging the Council and the Mayor to act on

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Saturday: Virginia Congressional Candidate LuAnn Bennett to Pump Up 32BJ SEIU Members Before Knocking on Doors for Bennett & Hillary Clinton

Chantilly, VA — At 10:00 am this Saturday, October 29, Virginia congressional candidate Luann Bennett will fire-up 32BJ SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members before they knock on doors to turn out votes for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign as well as Bennett’s bid to unseat Republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock (VA-10). “The SEIU is a champion

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Contracted Janitors at Walter Reed Avert Strike and Ratify New Contract Maintaining Employer Contributions to Workers’ Retirement Fund

Bethesda, MD — Nearly 300 contracted janitors who clean and maintain the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center have ratified a new contract that maintains their employer’s contributions into the workers’ pension fund. A week ago, workers voted to authorize a strike to protest Ace Janitorial Services’ previous proposal to undermine retirement security for cleaners,

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