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  Local 1877 President Mike Garcia reassuring the crowd that Sacramento building owners are enjoying the strongest real estate market in California and can well afford to pay for janitors' family healthcare. Interestingly, the same real estate owners that dominant Sacramento's market also own buildings in S.F, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. They have agreed to decent pay and family health insurance for the janitors who clean their buildings in those cities, so why not in Sacramento? Mike Garcia finished by saying "We don't want to strike, but we are ready to do whatever is necessary to achieve our goals."

 

 
  Marching past the Senator Hotel Building.

 

 
  Senator Richard Alarcon (Health and Human Services Committee) lending his support to the janitors' efforts to win family healthcare. Senator Alarcon spoke with admiration of his grandfather, a janitor and a role model in the fight to improve conditions for working people.
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