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Fairfield Janitors Reportedly Approve Tentative Contract

STAMFORD, CT-Janitors who were on strike here are back to work after ratifying an agreement with most of the cleaning contractors. The union began its job action almost two months ago.

By John Jordan | Updated on November 21, 2000

STAMFORD, CT-The striking Service Employees International Union Local 531 has ratified a contract agreement that calls for a 40% pay raise over three years. Janitors who were on strike for seven weeks began going back to their jobs yesterday morning.

The strike by the janitors who clean office buildings in Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk and Bridgeport, began on Oct. 2. A total of eight union members engaged in a hunger strike that lasted 24 days. Just before the deal was reached, the union had threatened to engage in unspecified acts of civil disobedience called “Operation Chaos” that was to begin on Thursday, Nov. 16. However, the union never implemented the campaign because deals with contracting firms were reached beforehand. The hunger strike ended last week when the union reached a tentative deal with the first cleaning contracting firm on Nov. 14.

A Local 531 spokesperson said that the membership voted in favor of the contact on Saturday (Nov. 18). In total, the deal involves 11 of the 12 cleaning contractors that employ SEIU members.

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