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  • Our Campaign
  • News
    • JPMorgan
    • ABM
    • Daimler
    • Expresso
    • Millennium Building Services
    • National Maintenance Contractors
    • SBM
    • Shorenstein Realty Services
    • Standard Insurance Center
    • TMT
    • Umpqua Bank Plaza
    • Unico
    • US Security Associates
  • For Janitors / Para Janitors
  • National Maintenance Contractors,  News

    National Maintenance Contractors Faces Another Lawsuit from Ex-Employees

    June 18, 2019 /

    National Maintenance Contractors, a janitorial firm with a long history with legal challenges, faces scrutiny this week after new claims are made. The NMC business model has come under fire in Oregon and Washington, especially after after a 2013 ruling by an administrative law judge—upheld in 2015 and 2017—found that NMC misclassified employees as franchisees.

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  • Daimler,  Millennium Building Services,  National Maintenance Contractors,  News,  Umpqua Bank Plaza

    REPORT: Cleaning Up Oregon’s Janitorial Industry

    June 11, 2018 /

    July 1, 2018, a new Oregon law will hold janitorial contractors and their customers responsible for fixing longstanding problems in the industry, including sexual harassment and assault, discrimination, and wage theft.

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Recent Posts

  • Protests continue at M Financial Plaza, a JP Morgan Chase-owned building that dumped its union janitors March 20, 2025
  • JPMorgan, ‘Tis the season to clean up the mess at M Financial Plaza December 20, 2024
  • Janitors and Security Officers Reach Historic Bargaining Agreements! June 29, 2024
  • IS YOUR PROPERTY MANAGER PART OF THE PEARL’S PROBLEM? June 24, 2024
  • Portland Metro Janitors Kick off Bargaining as Contract Nears Expiration June 14, 2024

Our Campaign

As the national movement for good jobs and fair wages swells, janitors, security officers, and airport workers from across the country are standing up to raise standards and improve jobs for all workers in our communities.

Locally in Portland and SW Washington, janitors, security officers, and airport workers have joined together to raise standards, improve jobs, and highlight the issues associated with irresponsible janitorial and security contractors such as high-turnover, low pay, lack of dependability, lack of affordable healthcare, and all-around lower standards.

By using responsible contractors in their market, building owners and other clients of subcontractors can take steps to ensure that subcontracted workers hold safe, good jobs and are treated with respect. Responsible contracting reduces the risk of labor disruption and lowers turnover—thereby increasing efficiency and workplace stability—by providing fair wages and benefits that workers deserve.

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