NBCUniversal and ABM Industries Rehire More Than 100 Union Janitors, Averting Major Protest
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The service workers were laid off on Monday after the entertainment company allegedly canceled deals with a facilities subcontractor at three locations.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment The drums were ready. So were the signs, the horns, the purple shirts and the protestors. Enough to fill three school buses, which before the protest at noon dropped off picketers who joined many more arriving on their own. But on Thursday, NBCUniversal and its subcontractor ABM Industries averted a major protest from janitors by rehiring more than 100 that their union claimed had been unjustly laid off at the beginning of the week. And so a demonstration staged by Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West (SEIU-USWW) at Studio City’s South Weddington Park that originally was intended to shame the major entertainment company became instead a celebration of the deal. Related Stories Street Casting Movie Stars Wanted. No Experience Necessary Business Writer Guild's Top Negotiators Are Willing to Play Hardball This Time, Too Negotiations between NBCU, ABM and the union continued nearly right up until the protest’s noon start time. After pumping the crowd up in the park, with 10 Universal City Plaza looming in the backdrop, union president David Huerta delivered the news to his members in Spanish that the parties had agreed that janitors could be rehired and would receive backpay. “They knew the workers were coming. They knew the union was organizing for this and they knew the union was going to continue to organize until which time we got the justice we deserved,” Huerta said in an interview. “And that is making sure everybody got their jobs back were unjustly canceled.” The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to NBCUniversal and ABM Industries for comment. The union said that more than 100 janitors lost their jobs on Monday after NBCUniversal canceled its contract with facilities services business ABM Industries at thre...
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