The following press release was received today :
SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR:
12 P.M. on Wednesday, September 28, 2011
BUILDING CLEANERS AT HARTFORD COURANT WILL RALLY TO SAVE THEIR JOBS
-- Protest Aims to Keep Courant’s Unionized Cleaning Company, Protect Good Jobs --
Building cleaners at Connecticut’s largest newspaper will rally Wednesday to protest their expected job loss if the paper terminates its long-time contract with a unionized cleaning company. The workers learned recently that the Hartford Courant could end its contract with Capitol Cleaning as early as October 1, which would throw the building’s eight cleaners out of work. Some of these men and women have been at the building more than 20 years. The workers have reached out to the Courant to apply to continue working under any new contractor. The company has not responded to their requests.
Kurt Westby, Connecticut State Director for SEIU 32BJ, said it is significant that all of the workers are full-time and have health benefits as well as a retirement plan. “These are good jobs that have given these workers and their families a toehold in the middle-class,” Westby said. “Hartford needs its employers to help in creating more good jobs, not destroying them. We call on the Courant to retain Capitol Cleaning, and not throw hard-working members of our community out on the street.”
WHAT: Rally to save good jobs
WHO: Building cleaners at the Courant, their supporters, other members of 32BJ SEIU, and area labor leaders
WHEN: 12 P.M. on Wednesday, September 28, 2011
WHERE: On Flower Street, across from the parking lot of the Hartford Courant at 285 Broad Street, Hartford
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5 comments:
Kevin -
Are you being a blogger and making a comment here, being a newspaper and reporting "facts" or just supporting the Union in hopes that the act will be reciprocated in November?
they sent it and asked for the information to be given out which I did
um Kurt.....your union also has city workers....how do they and you feel about the Mayor and council cross-endorsements with the Republican Party.
Wow. A liberal news organization that has always supported Obama, Malloy, and the Unions in financial trouble? They usually report how the evil boss wants to cut Union workers because he wants to buy a new yacht. Looks like they are feeling the effects of the policies their beloved democrats have instituted. Maybe if they reported the facts and didn't put their opinion in the articles more people would actually purchase this paper.
Anonymous, what rock have you been under? This same paper endorsed Bush twice and endorsed Rell. You must have been sleeping during the state budget this year when the Courant published three very anti-union opinions. Tribune Company is a big Corp, and like all big corps (aka "job creators") they benefit most from the republican platform.
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