CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN RETAIL CLEANING
“Every night, we are surrounded by food as we clean the grocery stores in our community. Yet often we cannot afford to put enough food on the table for our own families.”
BACKGROUND
Over the past 10-15 years, wages and working conditions in retail cleaning have spiralled out of control, with constantly lowering wages and increasing workloads. Workers are calling on large retail chains like Target and Lunds & Byerly’s to partner with CTUL to ensure that the workers who clean the stores in our community are treated fairly. Through the Campaign for Justice in Retail Cleaning, not only have workers stopped the downward spiral in the Twin Cities, workers report that they have gained the first wage increase they have seen in the industry in quite some time. Workers are continuing to organize to expand on these victories to ensure that all retail cleaning workers have fair wages and working conditions.
- Wall of Shame – highlighting the repeated violations of workers rights that have taken place locally and nationally in retail cleaning.
- Endorsing Organizations of the campaign
- Analysis about the campaign:
- “A Window into the World of Retail Cleaning” Looking at the working conditions in retail cleaning through the example of Menards in 2010.
- “Why put a new coat of paint on a house with a crumbling foundation?” Reflections about surface changes at retail cleaning companies shortly before launching the Campaign for Justice in Retail Cleaning
