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May 17, 2008 6:35 pm US/Pacific

SoCal Janitors Approve Contract, NorCal May Strike

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Janitors in Los Angeles and Orange counties have ratified a new contract that will provide a pay raise and better health care for some 6,700 workers.

But janitors in the Silicon Valley have voted to allow a strike that could leave dirty floors and wastebaskets at high-tech corporations such as Apple and Google.

Both votes were taken Saturday by factions of the Service Employees International Union.

In Southern California, the union says janitors overwhelmingly approved a deal with cleaning companies that would boost wages nearly $1,000 a year over the life of the contract.

It also provides vision care coverage and other increased health benefits.

In Northern California, however, the union prepared for a walkout by 6,000 janitors in four Bay Area counties. Union President Mike Garcia says the rank-and-file authorized a strike and union leaders plan to call one next week.

It would be the first walkout since Los Angeles janitors staged a three-week stoppage in 2000.

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