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Janitor Strike Getting Messy in Connecticut

STAMFORD, CT-A chief official with a major commercial office building owner in metro New York has vehemently denied charges that it engaged in an illegal firing and intimidation of some of its janitorial staff while a janitorial strike moves into its third week in Fairfield County.

By John Jordan | Updated on October 24, 2000

STAMFORD, CT-An official with W&M Properties denies charges leveled against the commercial building owner by officials with the striking janitorial union Local 531 that it illegally fired one of it workers and threatened other employees who were talking with a striking union worker at another commercial building here. The illegal firing and threats allegedly took place at W&M Properties’ Metro Center office building Downtown that caused several W&M employees to walk off their jobs on Thursday, according to Cynthia Kain, a spokesperson for the Service Employees International Union in Washington, DC.

The union released a statement on Friday, Oct. 18 stating that the fired W&M worker “lost his job two days after talking with a union organizer.” The statement continued, “Other workers were threatened with firing by a supervisor after she saw them speaking with organizers and a striker from another building.”

Jeffrey Newman, executive vice president of W&M Properties, says, “Those allegations are completely false. Nobody has been fired. Certainly not anyone with any activity relative to any union.”

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