Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/6/)
Bargaining committees representing SEIU Local 26 janitors and security officers headed back to the table today with their employers in a last-ditch effort to negotiate a fair contract that would improve 6,000 jobs in the Twin Cities.
In back-to-back votes, SEIU Local 26 security officers and janitors voted Saturday to authorize their respective bargaining committees to call a strike at any time.
Just before CEOs from Minnesota’s wealthiest corporations gathered for an annual luncheon celebrating their successes, janitors and security officers who clean and protect their buildings stood down the hall at the Minneapolis Hilton to discuss their fight for a fair contract.
More than 6,000 janitors and security officers, frustrated with takeback demands by employers, plan a Feb. 9 strike vote. They demonstrated their determination with a march through Minneapolis skyways Thursday.
More than 6,000 Twin Cities janitors and security officers are pressing forward on negotiations to ensure living wages and better health care for their families.
Gov. Mark Dayton said he plans to include same-sex domestic partner benefits in Minnesota\’s state employee contracts. AFSCME and MAPE will soon begin negotiating for new, two-year contracts for 2013-2015.
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society and the Twin Cities Musicians Union Local 30-73 have agreed to hold negotiations on Jan. 2 and 3 in an effort to reach a new contract.
Janitors and security officers represented by Service Employees International Union Local 26 and retail cleaners of CTUL (Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha/Center of Workers United in Struggle) kicked off their contract campaign with a march through Minneapolis skyways.
A march in downtown Minneapolis is planned for Monday, December 17 as Twin Cities area janitors and security guards continue contract negotiations through Service Employees International Union Local 26.
The Minnesota Nurses Association and North Memorial Health Care, Park Nicollet Health Services, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics, Fairview health Services, HealthEast Care System, and Allina Health have reached agreement on new three-year-contracts, the MNA and hospitals announced.