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:: Monday, June 30, 2003 ::
Janitorial Justice
How unionized janitors became a force to be reckoned with
Americans may have divided over the war in Iraq this spring, but one thing that brought them together was their health coverage. It was shrinking.
One group managed to evade this bonding national experience, however: the janitors who clean the high-rise office buildings in America's downtowns. I know this sounds preposterous. Many janitors are immigrants, and many are here without legal status. They have no apparent power. Many don't speak English. So how is it that this spring, while the two-thirds of Americans who have health coverage were being told they would have to pay more to keep it, the janitors were getting their coverage upgraded?------------------------------------------- posted 6:07 AM :: reference link ::
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