"Janitors' Drive in Texas Gives Hope to Unions" - NY Times

[The Judged]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/national/28janitor.html?ex=1133758800&en=9a2666c8fc92ad69&ei=5043&partner=EXCITE

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: November 28, 2005

"Union organizers have obtained what they say is majority support in one of the biggest unionization drives in the South in decades, collecting the signatures of thousands of Houston janitors.

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The union has trumpeted the Houston effort - which cost more than $1 million - as part of its Justice for Janitors campaign, billed as an antipoverty movement.

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Expanding on the Houston effort, the service employees hope to unionize 4,000 janitors in Atlanta, 2,000 in Phoenix and tens of thousands of shopping mall janitors nationwide. But even the service employees have encountered problems. For instance, their effort to organize 7,000 condominium workers in Miami has stalled because of opposition from the largest property management company there.

Still, the Houston effort has gone more smoothly than union officials had expected.

"We decided that Houston would be the place to bring to bear everything we've built in the last 15 years," said Stephen Lerner, director of the Justice for Janitors campaign. "That would allow us to organize a whole city at once.""

[W stands for Wacko]

1. How will the Republican's derail this?

The Department of Labor has already become an advocate for EMPLOYERS as opposed to the Departments original charter to be an advocate for employees!

http://cyberwerks.com/dataline/editorials/dptoflbr.html

"The Department of Labor was created in 1913 "to protect the wage-earners of the United States"."

Keep an eye on this! This is right in W's backyard!

Let's see how the Neo-con enablers respond to this!

[The Judged]

2. Today's acceptance, tomorrows rescission?

Today we may witness the apparent victory of Labor organizations, but tomorrow, beware, the laws that underly the American People's rights to organize and act as a union may be rescinded by an act of Congress and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Take pause and refrain from celebrating.

Election Day 2006 may change everything that you know and understand.

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