Union cleaners avoid strike, reach deal before deadline
Victor Ocasio, newsday.com
A Jan. 1 strike of 10,000 union janitors on Long Island and throughout the tristate region has been averted after a tentative agreement with dozens of regional cleaning companies was reached late last month, union officials said.
Around 700 union building cleaners at offices, schools and medical facilities on Long Island were poised to walk off the job when the old contract expired, according to officials with Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.