"Lindbergh janitors approve labor pact"

Friday, June 11, 2004

Airport janitor strike is averted 
The San Diego (CA) Union Tribune


SAN DIEGO - Janitors at San Diego International Airport narrowly averted
a strike today when they overwhelmingly approved a new five-year
contract calling for higher wages and improved health care benefits. 
 
With the help of a federal mediator, members of the Service Employees
International Union Local 1877, which represents the airport's janitors,
voted 72-4 to approve the contract, union officials said. 

The janitors, who were making between $7.40 and $8.46 per hour, had set
a 10 p.m. deadline for a strike if the sides could not reach consensus. 

The contract calls for: 

   employer-paid individual health insurance in the third year, and
fully paid family insurance in the fifth year. 

   wage and benefit increases beginning at $3.24 per hour. 

   the addition of domestic partner for bereavement leave and extended
leave of absence benefits. 

Seven airport janitors and supporters were arrested on Wednesday while
demonstrating outside the airport's Terminal Two. 

The dispute had centered on a five-year contract offered by Service
Performance Corp., which handles janitorial duties at the airport, that
did not include health insurance and provided for a three-tiered pay
system for new workers.


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