Cleaning Workers to Rally Against Wage Theft Thursday

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)A rally is planned for Thursday to support eleven former George Washington cleaning workers who have charged their former employer with wage theft. The workers -- employed by GW cleaning contractor BRAVO! Building Services -- say they worked for nearly three weeks in May cleaning GW dormitories, and then were fired and not paid their wages. They have launched a petition with Coworker.org to demand full payment of their wages and damages and on Thursday at 3:30p the workers, along with students, faculty, and allies will hold a demonstration at GW’s Kogan Plaza. The workers, backed by the DC Employment Justice Center, GWU Progressive Student Union, and other members of the DC Wage Theft Coalition, will march to Rice Hall where they will deliver their petition with over 1,000 signatures to GW’s Vice President of Operations Alicia Knight. The workers and their allies will ask Knight to urge Bravo CEO Karen Martinez to pay the workers their wages with liquidated damages. photo: GW workers at GW demo in July. Click here now to sign a petition to Knight.
- Hannah Kane