Union wants suburban janitors ; Membership drive could affect rental rates.(Service Employees International Union)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

From: Crain's Detroit Business | Date: April 23, 2001| Author: Dietderich, Andrew | Copyright information

Detroit's largest maintenance-worker union wants to double its size this year by trying to organize 2,500 nonunion janitors in the suburbs. If successful, the drive could mean higher rent for some suburban offices.

Detroit-based Local 79 of the Service Employees International Union, with 80 percent of its 2,000 members in downtown Detroit, is going after workers from Ann Arbor to Auburn Hills as part of its parent union's national ``Justice for Janitors'' campaign.

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