About Justice for Janitors
For two decades, janitors have been uniting to achieve social and economic justice through SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign. Since 1985, more than 225,000 janitors in 29 cities throughout the United States have united in SEIU and won family health insurance, livable wages, full-time work, and better working conditions. This movement of low-wage, mostly immigrant workers has earned broad-based support from the public as well as religious, political and community leaders.
In other cities across the country, SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign has been working closely with community and religious organizations, fighting the tide of rising health care costs -- and winning. At a time when employers are forcing workers to pay more of the cost of health care, community support is helping SEIU janitors in other major cities win contracts that maintain and even expand employer-paid health coverage, helping to ease the burden of health costs on taxpayers and public budgets; in Boston, for example, family health coverage extends to part-time janitors and even includes vision and dental care.
The 1.8 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is the nation’s largest and fastest growing union, and its membership is among the most diverse in the labor movement. As the nation’s largest union of property services workers, SEIU has worked to improve training, language and other skills for janitors and other property service workers, and formed productive partnerships with building owners and contractors to improve the overall quality of service. SEIU has members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. | SEIU Texas
Houston janitors have chosen to form a union with SEIU Texas. Find out how SEIU members are standing up for hard-working families. |
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