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STORY CATEGORIES: Forming Our Union | Standing Up for Equal Opportunity | Taking Action for Fair Wages | Getting the Respect We Deserve | Making Cintas Safer | Improving Our Benefits | Making Cintas Obey the Law
Forming Our Union
Montreal Cintas Workers Become First in Company History to Form a Union
2008-02-11
After years of enduring harsh working conditions for low pay, Cintas employees in Montreal have become the first in the company’s history to successfully form a union. READ MORE >
Take Action to Support Fired Cintas Worker
2007-11-15
After the death of a Cintas worker in March, Jorge Pacheco wanted to make the company a safe place to work. READ MORE >
Majority of Montreal Cintas Workers Ready to Form Union
2007-02-15
After years of enduring harsh working conditions for low pay, Montreal Cintas workers are poised to be the first to form a union of drivers and production employees in the company’s history. READ MORE >
Postal worker solidarity delivers contracts
2004-09-01
Workers at Cintas' Kansas City, Mo., and Ft. Smith, Ark., uniform-making plants ratified agreements that protect health benefits and raise wages substantially. Just as importantly, the company agreed to include formerly nonunion workers under the contract - without forcing them to go through a lengthy election process. The agreements also protect immigrants' rights. READ MORE >
Hot in Arkansas
2004-08-15
Workers at Cintas’ Little Rock plant showed their bosses they support organizing and kept cool at the same time in an Aug. 13 action. READ MORE >
Standing Up for Equal Opportunity
Cintas Military Discrimination Case Goes Back to Court
2007-06-18
Cintas says it values employees’ military service, but Arkansas worker Darold Maxfield has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired because of his military leaves. READ MORE >
Danny Glover and Civil Rights leader Rev. Shuttlesworth condemn Cintas’ discrimination
2006-07-22
Actor and activist Danny Glover, civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, and UNITE HERE president Bruce Raynor spoke out against Cintas’ record of discrimination at a recent press conference in town. Over 500 laundry and food service workers were in Cincinnati to make organizing plans for their industries. READ MORE >
Does Cintas discriminate against military members?
2005-11-02
A federal appeals court in St. Louis ruled recently that a former Cintas worker is entitled to a jury trial to determine if he was fired because of his military service. READ MORE >
More employees challenge Cintas discrimination
2005-08-04
Two former Cintas managers filed a class-action complaint (read the complaint) in federal district court in San Francisco alleging the company discriminated against them because they are African-American. Establishing a new lawsuit, the plaintiffs, Clifton Cooper and Larry Houston, accuse Cintas of denying them promotional opportunities offered to white managers. READ MORE >
No minorities need apply?
2005-04-15
An EEOC commissioner has filed charges against Cintas, triggering an investigation into whether Cintas is failing to place women, African-Americans and Hispanics in the company’s management trainee program. The commissioner has also charged that Cintas is not hiring and assigning women to some production positions in its plants. READ MORE >
Taking Action for Fair Wages
Court Orders Cintas to Pay Workers $1.18 Million in Back Pay and Interest
2008-06-12
The California Court of Appeal ordered the Cintas Corporation to pay more than $1.18 million in back wages and interest to hundreds of Northern California workers for violating the city of Hayward’s Living Wage Ordinance. READ MORE >
Cintas’s Earnings Grow, but Employees’ Incomes Shrink
2007-01-17
Cintas recently announced that second quarter earnings grew by more than 10 percent. Even though workers have helped sales soar to more than $3 billion a year, many Cintas workers are seeing stagnant or shrinking salaries. READ MORE >
Cintas Unable to Give Compelling Reason for Policy Costing Workers Their Paychecks
2006-12-15
Cincinnati-area clergy, immigrant rights advocates and community leaders joined Cintas workers from across the country in asking the company's top management to explain a policy that has cost many READ MORE >
Cintas owes $1.4 million in living wage case
2006-05-17
Penalties continue to mount against Cintas for violating Hayward, California’s living-wage law. With the latest ruling by a state court judge, Cintas now owes workers and the State of California over $1.4 million in back pay, interest and penalties. READ MORE >
Cintas sues its own employees to delay progress in overtime lawsuit
2006-03-31
As more than 2,400 Cintas drivers have come together to recover unpaid overtime premiums, Cintas is attempting to prevent drivers from pursuing these claims together as a group. READ MORE >
Getting the Respect We Deserve
Mobile Workers Don't Let Cintas Take Away Their Holiday
2007-06-05
When they got to the plant, Mobile, Alabama, workers couldn’t believe what they saw. READ MORE >
San Leandro Protests Cintas’ Threats to Immigrant Workers’ Livelihoods
2006-11-29
Just before Thanksgiving, dozens of clergy, affected workers, and community leaders rallied at Cintas’ San Leandro facility to protest an unfair policy that threatens the livelihoods of area immigrant families. READ MORE >
San Jose Community Leaders and Workers Tell Cintas to Stop Following Flawed “No Match” Policy
2006-11-03
A diverse delegation went to Cintas’ San Jose facility on Tuesday, October 31, to demand that the company revoke its unjust “no match” policy. READ MORE >
Schaumburg Community Tells Cintas to Revoke Policy that Could Harm Immigrant Workers
2006-11-02
A delegation of religious, community and labor leaders met with management at Cintas’ Schaumburg, Ill., facility last week to support immigrant workers whose jobs may be threatened. READ MORE >
Cintas named Grinch runner up
2004-12-22
Cintas was runner up in the 2004 "Grinch of the Year" contest held between December 6 and December 22 in a national online poll by Jobs with Justice. READ MORE >
Making Cintas Safer
The Painful Truth Tour in the News and in our Communities
2008-08-14
In addition to our communities’ help, the Tour has received a lot of media attention. READ MORE >
LCLAA Vows to Support Cintas Workers’ Struggle for Safer Jobs
2008-08-14
The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement passed a resolution promising support for safer jobs at Cintas. READ MORE >
Cintas Workers Launch National “Painful Truth Tour”
2008-07-22
The Coalition of Injured Cintas Workers today announced the launching of a nationwide tour to expose the hidden human costs of keeping America’s laundry clean. READ MORE >
Indiana OSHA Cites Cintas for Serious Hazards
2008-05-23
Inspectors from Indiana OSHA have cited Cintas for exposing workers to serious hazards in the its Fort Wayne wash alley. READ MORE >
Rep. Phil Hare Honors Cintas Worker Killed on Job in Workers Memorial Day Remarks
2008-04-28
One day after members of the U.S. House’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing that highlighted Cintas’s shameful safety record, Rep. Phil Hare honored a Cintas worker killed on the job and called for stronger OSHA enforcement. READ MORE >
Improving Our Benefits
Mobile Workers Want Safer Workplaces, Better Pay and Respect
2007-07-06
Cintas workers in Mobile, Alabama, are taking action for safer workplaces, better pay and respect on the job. READ MORE >
Union Cintas Workers Gain Better Pay and Benefits
2007-07-03
UNITE HERE members who work at Cintas’s Whittier, California, laundry have a new contract that guarantees better wages and benefits. READ MORE >
Making Cintas Obey the Law
Court Order: Cintas Must Give New Handbooks and Post Labor Board Notices
2007-07-23
Has Cintas given you a new handbook? Has management posted notices affirming our right to form a union? If not, the company is violating the law and should be reported. READ MORE >
Judge Tells Cintas to Roll Back Campaign of Coercion
2006-11-01
Cintas committed serious labor law violations against workers forming a union in Charlotte, NC, and Branford, Conn., according to a US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administrative law judge’s recent decision. READ MORE >
Court Finds Cintas Living Wage Suit is a Class Act
2006-10-30
Cintas workers in Southern California are one step closer to winning a living wage. A California appeals court recently granted class status to workers suing the company for alleged living wage law violations. READ MORE >
Investigation of Labor Rights Violations at a Cintas Supplier Factory
2006-09-27
Earlier this year, the Calypso apparel factory in Nicaragua fired 19 workers who had recently established a trade union. Calypso manufactures uniforms for several companies including Cintas. READ MORE >
Judge OKs suit against Cintas in Syracuse
2005-10-07
A lawsuit charging inadequate environmental review of a proposed Cintas laundry on a wetlands site near Syracuse, N.Y., can proceed, a judge ruled recently. READ MORE >