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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 155
Author: Fuentes (D), et al.
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Read and adopted, 6/11/12
SUBJECT : Justice for Janitors Day
SOURCE : SEIU United Service Workers West
DIGEST : This resolution recognizes June 15th as Justice
for Janitors Day, a day to commemorate the struggle of
janitors for affordable family health care and dignified
wages.
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following
legislative findings:
1.Thousands of California janitors work for contractors and
building owners, cleaning office buildings, business
parks, high-tech campuses, and many other sectors of the
California market.
2.For more than a decade these janitors, through the
Justice for Janitors campaign, have worked hard to lift
themselves out of poverty and, almost everywhere, have
secured family health care. By lifting themselves up,
these janitors have thereby transformed a once troubled
industry.
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3.The progress of these janitors, through their campaigns
for affordable family health care and dignified wages,
has benefited our entire community, including immigrant
communities and local businesses, and brightened the
hopes of an economic recovery in California. These
janitors are proof of the American Dream of advancing to
a better life through hard work.
4.Affordable medical benefits have kept these janitors and
their families healthier, thereby reducing costs borne by
the rest of the community, and affordable medical
benefits have kept these families from facing financial
calamity when illness strikes.
5.For two decades, the SEIU United Service Workers West
Justice for Janitors movement has helped low-wage workers
who clean buildings in major cities and suburbs across
California to achieve social and economic justice and
earn broad-based support from the public as well as
religious, political, and community leaders.
6.June 15th has for 22 years in the United States been
celebrated by janitors and their supporters as Justice
for Janitors Day, a day when janitors and other workers
demonstrate for justice in order to ensure dignified
wages and affordable family health care.
This resolution recognizes June 15th as Justice for
Janitors Day, a day to commemorate the struggle of janitors
for affordable family health care and dignified wages.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/6/12)
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
SEIU United Service Workers West (source)
Service Employees International Union California
CTW:n 8/8/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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