Progressive Union Organizing: The SEIU Justice for Janitors Campaign
| dc.contributor.author | Hurd, Richard W. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rouse, William | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-17T17:29:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-17T17:29:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1989-10-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | [Excerpt] The Justice for Janitors campaign was conceived during a bitter labor dispute with Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank which started late in 1985. Mellon Bank, having just renewed an Service Employees International Union collective-bargaining agreement, replaced their former cleaning contractor with a nonunion company. The new contractor refused to honor the Mellon-SEIU labor accord and was willing to hire only half of Mellon's 80 janitors on a part-time basis with a substantial pay cut and no benefits. Mellon disclaimed any responsibility, stating that the dispute was strictly between the new cleaning contractor and the janitors. In response the SEIU called a strike, filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB and began an active media campaign against Mellon. The strike was settled in September 1987 when the NLRB ruled Mellon to be a "co-employer" of the janitors. Mellon subsequently agreed to reinstate janitors under the union contract and to pay $750,000 in back wages (Wright 1987). | |
| dc.description.legacydownloads | Hurd56_Progressive_Union_Organizing__Post_.pdf: 727 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020. | |
| dc.identifier.other | 4772444 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/75986 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/048661348902100313 | |
| dc.rights | Required Publisher Statement: © SAGE. Final version published as: Hurd, R. W. & Rouse, W. (1989). Progressive union organizing: The SEIU Justice for Janitors campaign. Review of Radical Political Economics, 21(3), 70-75. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. | |
| dc.subject | Justice for Janitors | |
| dc.subject | Service Employees International Union | |
| dc.subject | SEIU | |
| dc.subject | labor movement | |
| dc.subject | organizing | |
| dc.title | Progressive Union Organizing: The SEIU Justice for Janitors Campaign | |
| dc.type | unassigned | |
| local.authorAffiliation | Hurd, Richard W.: rwh8@cornell.edu Cornell University | |
| local.authorAffiliation | Rouse, William: University of New Hampshire |
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