Workers United/SEIU announced today that industrial launderer Cintas has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that it violated the City of Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance. The settlement provides $3.3 million in back wages and interest for more than 500 Southern California Cintas laundry workers at the company's Ontario, Pico Rivera, and Whittier locations.

"We are overjoyed that Cintas is finally paying us the money we earned," said Blanca Arrellega, a worker at Cintas's Whittier facility. "Five years was too long to wait to get what we worked so hard for. We are happy that Cintas has finally decided to settle instead of fighting us." Read more.

The union believes the settlement is the largest monetary amount ever paid for alleged violations of a living wage ordinance.