[If you know academics who might be able to pressure Shalala, please have them give her a call-- NN]
http://www.nathannewman.org/laborblog/archive/003645.shtml
Ex-Clintonista Denies Labor Rights to Janitors
Janitors who clean offices at the University of Miami went on strike today to demand a decent wage for their families. And who is President of the University of Miami?
Donna Shalala, Clinton's director of the Health and Human Services, who claimed in a recent interview to have "spent much of her public career as an advocate for the poor" but won't stand up for the working poor working at the university over which she presides.
Most of these janitors, who service both the Coral Gables campus and Jackson Memorial Hospital, work for Boston-based
UNICCO, a commercial facilities services company that operates in malls, universities, and office buildings across the country. Although UNICCO staff at schools such as Harvard earn between $13 and $14 an hour and have fully paid health insurance, janitors at UM sites earn as little as $6.33 an hour, and are not provided with health insurance for themselves or their families.
The Orlando Sentinel has more on the strike. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-um0106mar01,0,5291654.story
Why don't you all call Donna Shalala and ask her to be a responsible community leader and require that UNICCO workers who clean the University's campus get paid a decent wage. Call her at (305) 284-5155.