BILL NUMBER: ACR 155	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 13, 2012
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 11, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuentes
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Block, Campos, Dickinson, Hueso, Pan,
Solorio, Swanson, and Yamada)
   (Coauthors: Senators Alquist, Correa, Kehoe, Lieu, Padilla,
Steinberg, and Vargas)

                        MAY 8, 2012

   Relative to Justice for Janitors Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 155, Fuentes. Justice for Janitors Day.
   This measure would recognize June 15th as Justice for Janitors
Day, a day to commemorate the struggle of janitors for affordable
family health care and dignified wages.



   WHEREAS, Thousands of California janitors work for contractors and
building owners, cleaning office buildings, business parks,
high-tech campuses, and many other sectors of the California market;
and
   WHEREAS, For more than a decade these janitors, through the
Justice for Janitors campaign, have worked hard to lift themselves
out of poverty and, almost everywhere, have secured family health
care. By lifting themselves up, these janitors have thereby
transformed a once troubled industry; and
   WHEREAS, The progress of these janitors, through their campaigns
for affordable family health care and dignified wages, has benefited
our entire community, including immigrant communities and local
businesses, and brightened the hopes of an economic recovery in
California. These janitors are proof of the American Dream of
advancing to a better life through hard work; and
   WHEREAS, Affordable medical benefits have kept these janitors and
their families healthier, thereby reducing costs borne by the rest of
the community, and affordable medical benefits have kept these
families from facing financial calamity when illness strikes; and
   WHEREAS, For two decades, the SEIU United Service Workers West
Justice for Janitors movement has helped low-wage workers who clean
buildings in major cities and suburbs across California to achieve
social and economic justice and earn broad-based support from the
public as well as religious, political, and community leaders; and
   WHEREAS, June 15th has for 22 years in the United States been
celebrated by janitors and their supporters as Justice for Janitors
Day, a day when janitors and other workers demonstrate for justice in
order to ensure dignified wages and affordable family health care;
now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature joins custodial workers
across the state in recognizing June 15th as Justice for Janitors
Day, a day to commemorate the struggle of janitors for affordable
family health care and dignified wages; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.