If you checked your inbox today, you probably saw an email asking you to sign a petition demanding that the new Stanford janitorial services subcontractor, UNICCO, “continue the employment of all the janitors currently employed by ABM with the same seniority, wages, and benefits that they held under ABM.” (Full petition after the jump.) As I write this, the petition signature list has 1060 names.

According to the petition, the new subcontractor (UNICCO) has notified about 70 workers that they may be fired. Some of those are eligible to re-apply, but they would lose seniority and begin at the bottom of the wage scale. The petition implies that this is contrary to social justice and violates the collective bargaining agreement of SEIU Local 1877, the union that represents these workers. These are two very different assertions that I address below the jump.

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