News of the Day: Janitors, science center battle over unionization

In today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, they highlight the trouble with the current process for forming a union.

If the story of the janitors and groundskeepers at the Carnegie Science Center weren't true, it would seem as if the advocates of the Employee Free Choice Act were making it up.

Those 10 people work for the same employer as the 50 people who clean the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History and the Carnegie Libraries. Yet, because of a quirk of history dating to a time when the individual museums were run as if they were separate organizations, the janitorial staffs at the museums and libraries are unionized. The cleaners at the Science Center are not….

The pay is $7.85 an hour. He is without medical insurance and is not granted days off with pay for sick time or vacation….

The janitors at the Oakland museums and the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh make $10 to $14 an hour and are awarded full benefits, including health insurance, vacation time and sick days, according to Gabe Morgan from the union that represents them.

The Employee Free Choice Act would help those 10 workers get the same wages and benefits as the other 50 janitors within the same organization.

Learn more about the Employee Free Choice Act and how it will benefit workers.

Here is another story worth reading. It highlights how workers in Indiana would be helped by the Employee Free Choice Act.

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