Security Officers, Window Cleaners, and Janitors Launch Joint Organizing Campaign

At our membership meeting on Saturday, May 12, security officers, window cleaners, and janitors ratified and launched a new organizing campaign for Local 26.

For the first time in our history, we are organizing in every part of our union at the same time to unite our strength. No longer can we afford to think of our union as separate pieces: janitors, security officers, and window cleraners. We all work in the same industry of Property Services.

One Industry. One Union.
Earlier this year, our victory with the janitors’ contract showed the building owners of Minneapolis and St. Paul that we are serious about raising standards in our industry for affordable family health insurance and livable wages.

But we only addressed one part of the industry: contract janitorial cleaning. The security officers who guard the same buildings and the window cleaners who clean their windows still lack the affordable health insurance that we just won with our new janitors contract.

If the building owners, managers, and contractors thought they had a fight on their hands last year, they haven’t seen anything yet!