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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
Members of the Coalition of Injured Cintas Workers Speak Out for Employee Free Choice
2009-03-20
Members of the Coalition of Injured Cintas workers went to Congress last week to ask their elected officials to support the Employee Free Choice Act. READ MORE >
Cintas Lawsuit Dismissed by Federal Judge, Victory for Cintas Workers
2009-03-20
Last week marked a great victory for Cintas workers as a US Federal Judge dismissed a Cintas lawsuit claiming UNITE HERE’s efforts to organize their workers as racketeering. READ MORE >
Cintas Workers Win Victory at the Labor Board
2009-02-10
The board upheld a judge’s previous assessment that Cintas management in Branford, Conn., and Charlotte, NC, unlawfully interrogated, discriminated against, and even threatened to fire workers for trying to form their union. READ MORE >
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 >
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
Cintas Workers Come Closer to Living Wage Win
2009-01-26
Southern California laundry workers are one step closer to getting the back wages they say the Cintas Corp. unlawfully withheld. READ MORE >
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 >
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
Cintas Highlighted in Hearing Calling for Stronger Enforcement for Workplace Fatalities
2009-04-30
While testifying today before the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections regarding stronger Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforcement, Change to Win Health and Safety Coordinator Eric Frumin called for stronger criminal sanctions for ignoring safety hazards that lead to a worker’s death or serious injury. READ MORE >
Change to Win's Workers Memorial Day Statement Singles Out Cintas
2009-04-28
The Change to Win federation said that the death of workers like Eleazar Torres Gomez shows the need for safer jobs. READ MORE >
Cintas Quotas Called "Hazardous"
2009-04-23
Kevin Osborne writes about dangerous conditions at Cintas. READ MORE >
Cintas Employees and Community Allies Demand Jobs Back for Fired Workers in Rally
2009-04-09
After the unjust firing of two Cintas employees, workers, students and community allies rallied outside of the company’s Bedford Park laundry today to demand that Cintas reinstate the dismissed workers. READ MORE >
Coalition Member Speaks at Worker Safety Event
2009-03-27
Coalition of Injured Cintas Workers member Donatila Alvarez spoke today at a memorial for the 146 workers that died in 1911 in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. 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 >