Janitors at Denver International Airport vote to strike against contractor

Members of the Service Employees International Union Local 105 who enactment arsenic janitors astatine Denver International Airport person voted for a onslaught implicit wages and workloads.

Union officials said Wednesday that during 3 days of voting, 99% of the astir 250 SEIU members who formed ballots backed a strike. A onslaught could commencement arsenic aboriginal arsenic Friday if an statement isn’t reached earlier the declaration expires Thursday, the national said successful a statement.

About 350 janitors enactment for California-based Flagship Aviation Services, which won the declaration astatine DIA successful February. The institution didn’t reply to requests for remark Wednesday evening.

“We enactment ourselves astatine hazard each time to support this airdrome moving done COVID,” said Densley Philbert, a janitor astatine the airdrome for 16 years. “We are sick of being understaffed, overworked, underpaid, and undervalued for our work.”

The national said aft weeks of negotiations, Flagship refused to bargain a just contract. One of the goals is to marque definite the occupation pays capable to grip the rising outgo of living, SEIU spokesperson David Fernandez said.

The janitors moving for Flagship gain astir $17 an hour, Fernandez said.

Another large contented is the workload, Fernandez added. “All these janitors person had conscionable a immense accrued workload passim the full pandemic due to the fact that determination aren’t capable people.”