TOLEDO — As negotiations continue between SEIU Local 1 and janitorial contractors, workers throughout Toledo say they’re scraping by while adhering to their duties of keeping essential buildings clean.
The Toledo Master Janitorial Agreement, which covers about 400 janitors, expires today, July 14. Camilo Villa, lead negotiator of SEIU Local 1, says that a new contract is being negotiated, with talks of an extension.
The SEIU Local 1 unites 50,000 workers across the Midwest, including five states and 10 cities. These workers include janitors, security officers, school service workers and more.
Local 1 began in Chicago in the early 1920s by residential maintenance workers with the goal of maintaining high labor standards for property service workers everywhere…