Trial Gets Underway for Nova Southeastern University

[Omaha Steve]

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Last update: 7:11 p.m. EST Nov. 17, 2008
MIAMI, Nov 17, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- - 100 Cleaners Making just over $7 per hour May have been Wrongfully Terminated -
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) today faced a federal judge for illegally threatening and intimidating workers making just over $7 an hour, and trying to thwart their legal efforts to unionize.

The trial comes on the heels of charges filed in 2007 when Nova's administration responded to workers efforts' to form a union by terminating their employer's cleaning contract, abruptly and ending a decade long relationship with UNICCO Services. More than 100 workers lost their jobs and many of them are still unemployed. The NLBR issued a complaint against Nova last September.

The janitors at Nova were paid less and had fewer benefits than their counterparts at other south Florida universities -- earning just over $7.00 per hour, which is far less than the county living wage of $12.51 per hour.

"The NLRB decision to take NOVA to trial is a step in the right direction and reaffirms the right of all workers to organize into a union," Said Rob Schuler of the Service Employees International Union in southern Florida, "Employer threats and intimidation have no place in the work site."

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