Seven SEIU Local 32BJ members finally got their jobs back with the National Archives in Washington, DC, this week, after a federal agency cleaning contractor, LB&B Associates Inc., fired them without cause last summer.

The workers who clean around some of the most important national records in the world, such as the Declaration of Independence, maintained that they lost their jobs for doing exactly what their supervisor ordered them to do: clock out early. Some of the 32BJ cleaners had been employed with the Archives for over two decades.

DID YOU KNOW? 32BJ members clean and maintain federal agencies throughout the area, including the U.S. State Department, the Department of Justice, the Department of Interior, the Department of Agriculture, FDIC and the Pentagon.