On May Day, hundreds of workers blocked the streets of San Francisco as they marched to demand a bigger piece of the pie.
On May Day, hundreds of workers who usually go unnoticed blocked the streets of San Francisco as they marched to demand a bigger piece of the pie.Many of the region's large tech buildings are cleaned and maintained by workers from the Service Employees International Union, Local 87. And in a May Day showing of collective muscle, they gathered for a march in downtown San Francisco to make their voices heard.
'Hotel workers and janitors are often invisible,' said Ted Waechter, an organizer for Unite Here Local 2, the hotel workers' union. 'It's an invisible workforce. But the office buildings and the hotels can't operate without them. We can't have a recovery in downtown San Francisco without them. And that's why we're saying today, it's time for respect, good wages, fair workloads, so that these folks can continue doing these important, invisible jobs.
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