SUBURBAN JANITORS JOIN WALKOUT MORE THAN A DOZEN STRIKERS MARCH OUTSIDE N.E. EXECUTIVE PARK

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 10, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Before this week, the professionals cruising into New England Executive Park every morning and the shoppers wandering through Burlington Mall never took much notice of Mario Garcia, Estelle Villanueva, and Herman Tobias.

These three are suburban janitors - among the hundreds who work in local buildings late at night, cleaning up the messes left behind by the working, eating, and shopping public.

Janitors in downtown Boston have grabbed plenty of headlines during the past two weeks by walking off hundreds of janitorial jobs in prestigious office buildings, protesting what Service Employees ...

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