400 Janitors Descend on Cisco Corporate Campus, March in Streets

Tensions escalating on picket lines, hundreds of workers continuing to walk off the job throughout the Bay Area

On the fourth day of a growing Bay Area strike, four hundred janitors were joined by faith and community leaders at a demonstration at Cisco Systems today as they called on the hi-tech industry powerhouse to support good jobs with adequate health care for all workers and their families. Janitors held a spirited rally and picketed briefly before leading a march through areas of Cisco’s sprawling corporate campus that periodically held up traffic in areas of San Jose and Milpitas.

“It’s unacceptable that Cisco Systems is failing to use its power as a bellwether and trendsetter in the hi-tech corridor to ensure janitors have jobs that permit them to do more than barely survive,” said Mike Garcia, President of SEIU Local 1877.

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