Black Janitors at Halifax's Founders Square Rally Against Unjust Termination & Racial Discrimination

Rally on Monday March 26th for the Black janitorial cleaners at the Founders Square office building in downtown Halifax who were laid off on the afternoon of Friday March 23rd (within hours of announcing that they were filing a complaint with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission alleging racial discrimination by Deep Down Cleaning Services Ltd. and Armour Group, the building property management company at Founders Square).
Speakers at today’s rally included Justice For Janitors SEIU Local 2 Organizer Darius Mirshahi, SEIU Local 2 Nova Scotia President Jacqueline Swaine, longtime community & labour organizer Lynn Jones (who is the spokesperson for the newly-formed labour-community coalition Black Workers Matter which unites community organizations, faith groups, immigrant organizations, labour unions, student unions and student movement organizations, arts groups and more in a campaign to support the laid-off Black janitors), a tenant at Founders Square (Fiona), Wanda Lewis from the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church, Halifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council President Suzanne MacNeil, community organizer, poet & academic El Jones, Brad Fougere from the IWW K'jipuktuk - Halifax, Nova Scotia Federation of Labour President Danny Cavanagh and Amina Abawajy from the Dalhousie Student Union.
Singer Joel Plaskett and his father dropped by the information picket and promised to come back later this week to play some songs at one of the upcoming information picket rally events this week.
Workers, supporters and their union will rally TWICE EACH DAY this week (from 12pm NOON until 1pm daily and from 4pm until 5pm each day) outside Founders Square at 1701 Hollis Street. Join the Black janitorial cleaning workers this week at their information pickets at either noon or 4pm each day this week.