Justice for Janitors is a movement of janitors uniting for better working conditions. It is part of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Justice for Janitors started in Denver, Colorado in 1985. More than 200,000 janitors in more than 28 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.

Currently, janitors in Houston, Texas are organizing through the Justice for Janitors campaign. In July 2005 Houston janitors secured a card check and neutrality agreement from the five largest cleaning contractors in Houston, a historic victory in a right-to-work state. In November 2005 four of the five contractors recognized SEIU as representing a majority of each contractor's workers, and in December the fifth contractor did as well.

More information is available on the Houston campaign at www.houstonjanitors.org.

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See also

• Organising model
• SEIU
• Chicano

External links

• Service Employees International Union
• Justice for Janitors and
• About Justice for Janitors
• SEIU Local 1
• SEIU Local 32BJ
• SEIU Local 1877

Trade unions of the United States