Houston Cleaners strike continues

After a year in which both oil company profits and gas prices saw record highs, groups now are protesting Chevron’s refusal to ensure 5,300 Houston janitors, including those who clean its office buildings there, have wages of more than $20 a day or health insurance. The Houston janitors are in week four of a strike that has spread nationwide and made Houston a national testing ground in efforts to halt the spread of the poverty wage economy.

Over 2,500 people have responded to a LabourStart appeal to e-mail messages to Chevron in support of the striking cleaners in Houston over the last week. This was part of a worldwide protest that culminated yesterday(15 November,2006)in a day of action across the USA in support of the strikers.

For full details of the protest:
http://www.houstonjanitors.org/chevron-day-of-action-11152006/