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Broadway Cleaners Vote to Authorize Strike: “What This Fight Boils Down to Is Respect”
July 7, 2026 // The strike vote marks the first time the more than 250 cleaners, who are a part of the 32BJ of Service Employees International Union, have voted to authorize a strike in 18 years. Talks with the Broadway League, which represents their employers, the theater owners ATG, Nederlander, Shubert and Circle in the Square, are ongoing, but the Broadway cleaners say the two parties are still far apart on several issues, and the current contract has expired.
Cleaners at American Dream fired for union activity must be rehired, NLRB says
April 25, 2024 // Two former cleaning staff members at the American Dream mall in East Rutherford who said they were fired for trying to organize a union must be reinstated, a three-judge panel has ruled. Previously, the National Labor Relations Board sided with the two former workers, Jose Terán and Luis Valera, who were employed by HSA Cleaning Inc., a company contracted for cleaning services at the Meadowlands megamall.