PITTSBURGH — Workers celebrated Friday morning outside Nova Place in Pittsburgh’s North Side, ready to return to work.
The union workers were reportedly locked out last summer when a new cleaning company, Checklist Facility Maintenance, took over.
Channel 11’s Liz Kilmer is talking with workers and a Pittsburgh councilwoman for Channel 11 News, starting at 5 p.m.
“We showed up for work and there was no job for us. We were locked out. There was no prior warning. We just showed up for work and our jobs weren’t there anymore,” Charese Carter, a worker, said.
The National Labor Relations Board got involved, and a settlement shows the company violated workers’ rights.
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HAPPENING NOW: cleaners celebrating a return to work & back pay after contractor “violated” workers rights, union stepped in at NoVa Place @wpxi pic.twitter.com/8qkxv3mL1P
— Liz Kilmer (@LizKilmerWPXI) April 19, 2019
The owner of the cleaning company said last year that his company had a contract with another union and could not hire SEIU workers.
Those workers now get their jobs back.
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