Contact: Renee Asher SEIU Communications Office: 301-581-0682 Cell: 301-996-6364

Resources About Majority Sign Up (pdf) Background on Campaign Will Harvard’s Next President Respect Workers’ Rights? (pdf) Harvard Crimson Ad by Harvard Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) and the SEIU janitors at Harvard University We Need a Union to Protect Ourselves from UNICCO (pdf) A Personal Message to Donna Shalala… Will You Stand with America’s Working Poor? (pdf) Ad in New York Times, Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald Civil Rights Violations at the University of Miami (pdf) SEIU Press Kit Media kit on Eliseo Medina.(pdf)

News of Note Edwards, Hoffa rally for UM janitors National political figures John Edwards and James P. Hoffa delivered moral support and media exposure to a rally for striking UM janitors. Miami Herald April 26, 2006 Coalition of clergy embraces UM strikers An interfaith coalition of clergy has joined hands, literally and figuratively, with University of Miami janitors on strike. Miami Herald April 25, 2006 Anger Rises on Both Sides of Strike at University of Miami Outside the University of Miami's main entrance, six janitors and five students continued their hunger strike on Monday, with several asserting that the university's president, Donna Shalala, was a union-buster. New York Times April 18, 2006 UNICCO Named One of "Dirty Dozen" -- Worst Health and Safety Violators in U.S. UNICCO is listed in a new national report as one of 12 "Dirty Dozen" employers with the worst records of workplace health and safety in the nation. The company was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for repeated violations after a frightening eighth job-related employee fatality since 1999.