Coffee Hour: Latinos and Unionization (SEIU Local 26): 5-15
Saturday, May 15
10:00am-11:45am
At the Resource Center of the Americas
Presented in English
Description:
This presentation will be about the work done by the SEIU Local 26 Contract Campaign 2010.
SEIU Local 26 is a local property service union that represents over 5,000 workers in the Twin Cities in the 7 county metro area. Including the Security Officers and Window Cleaners.
They will talk about their more recent Contract win in approving a contract that affect the lives of 4,000 working families in the 7 county metro area, primarily Latino immigrants, but also includes African immigrants and people from other countries.
Speaker:
Iris Altamirano (SEIU Local 26)
Bio Information:
Iris Altamirano has been Political Director of SEIU Local 26, a union that represents Janitors, Security Officers, and Window Cleaners in the 7 county Twin Cities metro, since 2006. Iris is first generation US Latina and was raised on a non-union janitor’s salary in a small town in South Texas. Iris went on to be the first person in the history of her school to attend and graduate from an Ivy League, Cornell University.
Mrs. Altamirano has worked toward social justice professionally for the past 8 years in community, political, and now union organizing, however was organizing long before that, without even knowing it was “organizing.”
Contact Information:
Iris Altamirano
Email: ialtamirano@seiu26.org
Phone: 612-703-2812
