Gavilan Gomez was scheduled to meet with U.S. Bank executives, including Minneapolis Market President Elliott Jaffee, at 4 p.m. Friday at national U.S. Bancorp headquarters, 800 Nicollet Mall, downtown Minneapolis, her union said.
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| Rosalina Gavilan Gomez |
Gavilan Gomez and her husband purchased their home in 2004 for $200,000. Working 40 hours a week at $12.97 an hour, her annual salary of $26,000 just wasn’t enough to keep up with her Adjustable Rate Mortgage, she said. She and her husband were forced to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Soon after they lost the right to keep their house. U.S. Bank foreclosed on the house on Sept. 11, 2009.
Since the start of the housing crisis, more than 88,000 Minnesota families have lost their homes to foreclosure while Fortune 500 companies such as US Bancorp and Wells Fargo continue to rake in billions in net profits during the recession.
Full-time janitors in the Twin Cities make as little as $20,200 a year. Many face thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket medical costs due to poor coverage, or do not go to the doctor out of fear of incurring big bills.
Janitors at ABM and Harvard, who clean commercial office buildings and corporate headquarters across the Twin Cities region, have voted to authorize a strike over unfair labor practices and could walk off the job at any time. They have been bargaining for months with their employers, and they have been working without a contract since Jan. 8.
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Gavilan Gomez was scheduled to meet with U.S. Bank executives, including Minneapolis Market President Elliott Jaffee, at 4 p.m. Friday at national U.S. Bancorp headquarters, 800 Nicollet Mall, downtown Minneapolis, her union said.
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| Rosalina Gavilan Gomez |
“I work hard every day to keep Richard Davis’ office clean, but my family and I need help to save our home,” she said. “I am glad a representative of U.S. Bank has decided to meet with me because everyone in our community needs good jobs to keep our homes, and it is the right thing for them to do.”
Gavilan Gomez and her husband purchased their home in 2004 for $200,000. Working 40 hours a week at $12.97 an hour, her annual salary of $26,000 just wasn’t enough to keep up with her Adjustable Rate Mortgage, she said. She and her husband were forced to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Soon after they lost the right to keep their house. U.S. Bank foreclosed on the house on Sept. 11, 2009.
Since the start of the housing crisis, more than 88,000 Minnesota families have lost their homes to foreclosure while Fortune 500 companies such as US Bancorp and Wells Fargo continue to rake in billions in net profits during the recession.
Full-time janitors in the Twin Cities make as little as $20,200 a year. Many face thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket medical costs due to poor coverage, or do not go to the doctor out of fear of incurring big bills.
Janitors at ABM and Harvard, who clean commercial office buildings and corporate headquarters across the Twin Cities region, have voted to authorize a strike over unfair labor practices and could walk off the job at any time. They have been bargaining for months with their employers, and they have been working without a contract since Jan. 8.
For more information
Visit the Workday special section, "Good Jobs, Green Future"