National SEIU Leaders Join Fast for Justice As Chorus Grows Calling on Shalala to Intervene Heads of nation's largest union Andrew Stern and Eliseo Medina join students, faculty and community supporters in fast as janitors end seventeen-day hunger strike April 21, 2006

Award Winning Actor and Activist Ed Asner; SEIU President Andy Stern to Meet with Striking Janitors as National Focus on Shalala Intensifies On Friday morning, actor and activist Ed Asner will travel to "Freedom City" to visit with the men and women who are on their 17th day of a hunger strike. Later in the day, Andrew L. Stern, President of SEIU, America’s largest union, and SEIU Vice President Eliseo Medina will join with the fast. April 21, 2006

Health Status Report, Day 16 Statement of Farrah Stewart, Volunteer Nurse On the Health of Janitors Participating in the Hunger Strike at the University of Miami April 20, 2006

National Civil Rights Leader to Come to Freedom City to Support Civil Rights Campaign by Janitors at the University of Miami One of the nation's foremost civil rights leaders, Charles Steele, Jr., national president and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), will be in Miami tomorrow to support janitors and students at the University of Miami who are in their second week of a hunger strike to protest civil rights violations against janitors at the University of Miami. April 19, 2006

HEALTH STATUS REPORT, DAY FOURTEEN Today at  8:30 a.m Pablo Rodriguez, 31, awoke feeling weak. He then began to shake.  His blood pressure dropped to dangerous levels .  An ambulance was called and he was taken to Doctors hospital. April 18, 2006

HEALTH STATUS: DAY 11 OF JANITOR HUNGER STRIKE Fourth fasting worker hospitalized. Statement of Gail Rodriguez Rohner, Administrative Nurse and volunteer April 15, 2006

Day 10: Workers in day ten, students in day three without food, protesting civil rights abuses by campus contractor UNICCO The strike by nearly 200 UNICCO janitors who clean the campus of the University of Miami will be put in national perspective Friday with the visit of national workplace democracy expert and former Congressman David Bonior, the Chair of the group American Rights at Work. April 14, 2006

SEIU President Andy Stern 4/13/06 Who's Really Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place??? SEIU President Andy Stern weighs in April 13, 2006

HUNGER STRIKE DAY NINE: Janitors, Supporters to Observe Holy Thursday One Day after Third Hospitalization of Fasting Workers Striking janitors and their supporters at the University of Miami will observe the religious tradition of Holy Thursday as seven of their co-workers are in day nine of a hunger strike that has led to the hospitalization of three janitors and left the others in a significantly weakened physical state.  The janitors were joined Wednesday on their hunger strike by half a dozen students protesting the rash of civil rights abuses committed against workers on the campus. April 13, 2006

Health Status Report, Day Seven Statement of Gail Rohner, Volunteer Nurse, On the Health of the 8 Remaining Janitors Participating in the Hunger Strike at the University of Miami April 11, 2006

University of Miami Hunger Strike Update: Monday, April 10 Janitors at University of Miami Enter 6th Day of No Food April 10, 2006

University of Miami Hunger Strike Update: Saturday, April 8 Day Four This afternoon, we found it necessary to ask for emergency medical assistance for Isabel Montalvo, 52.  A janitor at the University of Miami in the physical plant, Isabel Montalvo began a hunger fast four days ago to protest the continued civil rights abuses committed by UNICCO. April 8, 2006

Janitor & Student Hunger Strike Begins at UM Workers and community want cleaning company to be held accountable. April 5, 2006