Unionized janitors, landscapers authorize strike at Nova Southeastern for higher wages

Janitors, landscapers, and maintenance workers at Nova Southeastern University in Davie have voted to authorize a strike against Encompass, a cleaning contractor for the private university.

Union officials, in a statement released Friday night, said negotiations with Encompass have failed to reach an agreement. They said the union offered a 50 cent per hour raise. The current contract expires Monday.

“Fifty cents won’t even buy me a cortadito,” Brigitte Concepcion, an Encompass janitor, said in a statement from the union…

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