Employees of the company providing janitorial services for most of Stafford County’s schools plan to continue striking today.

About 50 first showed up at 7 a.m. Monday to wave signs outside GCA Services Group’s office in the Stafford County Public Schools Facilities Operations and Maintenance Facility at 25 Wyatt Lane in Stafford.

The signs bore such slogans as “We care about our schools. But GCA doesn’t care about us.” “We like our job. We hate our pay.” And “Strike! Strike! Strike!”

The employees, many of whom have worked for GCA as long as seven years, said they’ve never gotten a raise to their $8-an-hour salary. That’s 75 cents above minimum wage in Virginia.

“They told a lot of us that after three weeks we’d get a raise, but that never happened,” said Clayton Howard, who has worked for GCA for three years. “A lot of folks here work side jobs [to make ends meet]. I cut grass.”

More at source: Fredricksburg.com 

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