SAN JOSE, Calif. (KCBS) -- Silicon Valley janitors who are poised to walk off the job this week received the support of more than 300 Bay Area unions Monday.
Unions representing sanitation workers, delivery drivers, operating engineers, building and construction trades, window cleaners and others vow not to cross the picket lines of SEIU Local 1877.
The Teamsters also said it would not cross the picket lines.
“The Teamsters are behind the janitors 110%,” said Larry Daugherty of the Teamsters Local 305 in a morning press conference outside Applied Materials in the Silicon Valley. “Teamsters won’t cross janitors’ picket lines and that means no trash will be coming out, no deliveries will be going in, period.”
Janitors who clean Silicon Valley’s high-tech and bio-tech corporate campuses—including Apple, Applied Materials, Cisco Systems, Intel, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Google, Yahoo and other facilities—voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to authorize a strike.
Management officials have been unavailable for comment.
(Photo from SEIU, Local 1877)
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KCBS' Mike Colgan reports
