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The allegations against supervisors include making lewd sexual remarks, exposing genitals, displaying pornography, assault and attempted rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know we are not the only ones,\" said plaintiff Maria Paramo. \"This problem affects many workers, especially women in our industry, all across the country. I am proud to stand up for myself and others who cannot speak to say 'ya basta' [enough is enough].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM provides janitorial services across the country. It was a focal point of KQED's groundbreaking 2015 investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">“Rape on the Night Shift,\u003c/a>” produced in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\">PBS Frontline\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/\">Univision\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\">UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a>. That investigation pointed to years of complaints against ABM, including a federal class-action lawsuit involving 21 women from the Central Valley.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brenda Adams, senior attorney with Equal Rights Advocates\"]'It is a very scary thing to be in their position: to work alone at night in a big empty building, to not speak English, to be paid minimum wage and have that be your sole source of income for your entire family, to be threatened with losing your job, threatened with immigration authorities, and threatened physically with harm.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new settlement — developed with input from women janitors themselves — requires ABM janitorial operations across California to develop more robust safety protocols. That could include using a buddy system to pair up workers when dropping off supplies, and limiting supply drops to well-lit, outdoor areas. The settlement also requires the company to create goals of hiring and promoting more women to supervisory positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was first filed in 2019. Another plaintiff, Araceli Sanchez, said she endured 14 years of harassment while cleaning buildings, including sexual assault and attempted rape, from her supervisor, while working the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” Sanchez told The California Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726127/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift\">in 2019.\u003c/a> “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Araceli Sanchez says she endured abuse at the hands of her supervisor for 14 years. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleged there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a very scary thing to be in their position: to work alone at night in a big empty building, to not speak English, to be paid minimum wage and have that be your sole source of income for your entire family, to be threatened with losing your job, threatened with immigration authorities, and threatened physically with harm,\" said Brenda Adams, senior attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://www.equalrights.org/\">Equal Rights Advocates\u003c/a>, which filed the lawsuit in conjunction with Fresno law firm Lang, Richert and Patch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11090957\" label=\"More on 'Rape on the Night Shift'\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These women were vulnerable and supervisors knew that. And ABM threw them to the wolves,\" added Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also requires that sexual harassment training and resources be made available in English and Spanish, and be accessible to those with limited literacy by providing audio files and pictorial descriptions to janitors and supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It addresses a major problem in the janitorial industry, which is you can have the best policies on the planet, but if people don’t understand them, it’s meaningless,\" said Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement to KQED, ABM Industries noted that the company is \"committed to fostering a professional and safe working environment for all our employees and we have zero tolerance for sexual harassment. Upon learning of these alleged incidents, we took immediate action by suspending the accused individuals, retaining an independent third party to investigate the claims, following up with the employees on their wellbeing, and subsequently terminating the accused individuals immediately after our investigation concluded. We take any claim of sexual harassment very seriously and remain committed to providing a safe workplace for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three Fresno janitors have won a settlement against the nation's largest cleaning company.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1614626194,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":760},"headData":{"title":"Women Janitors Win More Protections From Rape on the Night Shift | KQED","description":"Three Fresno janitors have won a settlement against the nation's largest cleaning company.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11862291 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11862291","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/03/01/women-janitors-win-more-protections-from-rape-on-the-night-shift/","disqusTitle":"Women Janitors Win More Protections From Rape on the Night Shift","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/4016ef04-45ae-4f68-9837-acde011fa8f5/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11862291/women-janitors-win-more-protections-from-rape-on-the-night-shift","audioDuration":88000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The nation's largest janitorial company,\u003ca href=\"https://www.abm.com/\"> ABM Industries,\u003c/a> has settled a lawsuit with three women janitors from Fresno who claimed the company fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees. The allegations against supervisors include making lewd sexual remarks, exposing genitals, displaying pornography, assault and attempted rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know we are not the only ones,\" said plaintiff Maria Paramo. \"This problem affects many workers, especially women in our industry, all across the country. I am proud to stand up for myself and others who cannot speak to say 'ya basta' [enough is enough].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM provides janitorial services across the country. It was a focal point of KQED's groundbreaking 2015 investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">“Rape on the Night Shift,\u003c/a>” produced in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\">PBS Frontline\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/\">Univision\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\">UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a>. That investigation pointed to years of complaints against ABM, including a federal class-action lawsuit involving 21 women from the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It is a very scary thing to be in their position: to work alone at night in a big empty building, to not speak English, to be paid minimum wage and have that be your sole source of income for your entire family, to be threatened with losing your job, threatened with immigration authorities, and threatened physically with harm.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Brenda Adams, senior attorney with Equal Rights Advocates","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new settlement — developed with input from women janitors themselves — requires ABM janitorial operations across California to develop more robust safety protocols. That could include using a buddy system to pair up workers when dropping off supplies, and limiting supply drops to well-lit, outdoor areas. The settlement also requires the company to create goals of hiring and promoting more women to supervisory positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was first filed in 2019. Another plaintiff, Araceli Sanchez, said she endured 14 years of harassment while cleaning buildings, including sexual assault and attempted rape, from her supervisor, while working the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” Sanchez told The California Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726127/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift\">in 2019.\u003c/a> “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Araceli Sanchez says she endured abuse at the hands of her supervisor for 14 years. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleged there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a very scary thing to be in their position: to work alone at night in a big empty building, to not speak English, to be paid minimum wage and have that be your sole source of income for your entire family, to be threatened with losing your job, threatened with immigration authorities, and threatened physically with harm,\" said Brenda Adams, senior attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://www.equalrights.org/\">Equal Rights Advocates\u003c/a>, which filed the lawsuit in conjunction with Fresno law firm Lang, Richert and Patch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11090957","label":"More on 'Rape on the Night Shift' "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These women were vulnerable and supervisors knew that. And ABM threw them to the wolves,\" added Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also requires that sexual harassment training and resources be made available in English and Spanish, and be accessible to those with limited literacy by providing audio files and pictorial descriptions to janitors and supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It addresses a major problem in the janitorial industry, which is you can have the best policies on the planet, but if people don’t understand them, it’s meaningless,\" said Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement to KQED, ABM Industries noted that the company is \"committed to fostering a professional and safe working environment for all our employees and we have zero tolerance for sexual harassment. Upon learning of these alleged incidents, we took immediate action by suspending the accused individuals, retaining an independent third party to investigate the claims, following up with the employees on their wellbeing, and subsequently terminating the accused individuals immediately after our investigation concluded. We take any claim of sexual harassment very seriously and remain committed to providing a safe workplace for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11862291/women-janitors-win-more-protections-from-rape-on-the-night-shift","authors":["254"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_29199","news_18538","news_311","news_37","news_19948","news_22464","news_18239","news_29200","news_4435","news_18262","news_2838","news_4569"],"featImg":"news_11726147","label":"news_72"},"news_11726127":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11726127","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11726127","score":null,"sort":[1550166004000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift","title":"Fresno Janitors Sue Employer, Alleging Continued 'Rape on the Night Shift'","publishDate":1550166004,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Three women janitors from Fresno have filed a lawsuit claiming that the nation’s largest janitorial company, ABM, fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees. The allegations against supervisors include making lewd sexual remarks, exposing genitals, displaying pornography, assault and attempted rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM provides janitorial services across the country. It was a focal point of KQED's groundbreaking 2015 investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">“Rape on the Night Shift,\u003c/a>” produced in collaboration with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PBS Frontline, Univision and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. That investigation pointed to years of complaints against ABM, including a federal class-action lawsuit involving 21 women from the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11726148 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Jennifer Reisch of Equal Rights Advocates, and janitors from around the state who came to support the plaintiffs, appear at a press conference in front of Fresno County Superior Court on Feb. 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the new case filed this week, Fresno janitor Araceli Sanchez claims to have endured 14 years of harassment from her supervisor. She says he frequently grabbed her by the back of her head and tried to force her to her knees so that she would give him oral sex. The lawsuit details an incident in which he called her to his truck under guise of getting cleaning supplies, but would instead watch pornography and begin masturbating, as well as another incident where he drove her to an orchard and attempted to rape her.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read KQED's Coverage of 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/CITY_06.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” said Sanchez, standing outside Fresno County Superior Court, where the suit was filed. “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleges there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name, but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleges that the supervisor forced her to work off the clock, laundering her cleaning mop-heads and rags, and failed to reimburse her for the cost of using a laundromat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another plaintiff, Maria Paramo, claims that the same supervisor repeatedly grabbed her breasts and, at one point, digitally raped her by forcing his fingers into her vagina. Years later, the suit alleges he demanded oral sex in exchange for assigning her a full eight-hour shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company should be responsible. They can’t be blind or mute about what we say is happening to us,” Paramo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Paramo says the same supervisor who harassed Sanchez harassed her repeatedly and eventually assaulted her on the job. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ABM has been sued by the federal government three times for failing to protect workers from sexual harassment. Each time it agreed to improvements. As recently as 2013, the company was subject to a consent decree stemming from the federal lawsuit in the Central Valley. That decree spelled out specific steps to protect janitors from harassment on the job in Fresno and surrounding areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/sexual-abuse-claims-to-face-outside-review-at-nations-biggest-janitorial-firm/\">agreed to follow other steps\u003c/a> after a 2015 settlement in another case against ABM involving a female janitor who said she was raped by her supervisor at the San Francisco Ferry Building. As part of the terms of that case, ABM agreed to hire an outside neutral female investigator when it receives a complaint. The latest lawsuit alleges that when ABM did investigate the Fresno women’s case, it hired an investigator who had previously defended ABM against claims of sexual harassment in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company has broken its promises in numerous ways for many years,” said attorney Jennifer Reisch of Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco, who’s representing the women in this new case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the first or the second or the fifth time that this company has been sued by janitors who’ve been raped, sexually assaulted and harassed on the night shift,” Reisch said. “But I really, really hope that this the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisch said the company could be taking easy steps, like checking in with supervisors to make sure they’re not violating policies, and making it more clear where women can go to report harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ABM spokeswoman declined to comment on the Fresno lawsuit before deadline. In prior statements, the company has said its policies to address sexual abuse are the gold standard in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5738781-Sanchez-Et-Al-v-ABM-Et-Al-Final-Complaint/\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three women janitors from Fresno have filed a lawsuit claiming that the janitorial company ABM fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1550190151,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":829},"headData":{"title":"Fresno Janitors Sue Employer, Alleging Continued 'Rape on the Night Shift' | KQED","description":"Three women janitors from Fresno have filed a lawsuit claiming that the janitorial company ABM fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11726127 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11726127","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/14/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift/","disqusTitle":"Fresno Janitors Sue Employer, Alleging Continued 'Rape on the Night Shift'","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/02/FresnoJanitorsKhokatcram190214.mp3","audioTrackLength":120,"path":"/news/11726127/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift","audioDuration":138000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three women janitors from Fresno have filed a lawsuit claiming that the nation’s largest janitorial company, ABM, fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees. The allegations against supervisors include making lewd sexual remarks, exposing genitals, displaying pornography, assault and attempted rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM provides janitorial services across the country. It was a focal point of KQED's groundbreaking 2015 investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">“Rape on the Night Shift,\u003c/a>” produced in collaboration with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PBS Frontline, Univision and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. That investigation pointed to years of complaints against ABM, including a federal class-action lawsuit involving 21 women from the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11726148 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Jennifer Reisch of Equal Rights Advocates, and janitors from around the state who came to support the plaintiffs, appear at a press conference in front of Fresno County Superior Court on Feb. 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the new case filed this week, Fresno janitor Araceli Sanchez claims to have endured 14 years of harassment from her supervisor. She says he frequently grabbed her by the back of her head and tried to force her to her knees so that she would give him oral sex. The lawsuit details an incident in which he called her to his truck under guise of getting cleaning supplies, but would instead watch pornography and begin masturbating, as well as another incident where he drove her to an orchard and attempted to rape her.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read KQED's Coverage of 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/CITY_06.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” said Sanchez, standing outside Fresno County Superior Court, where the suit was filed. “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleges there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name, but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleges that the supervisor forced her to work off the clock, laundering her cleaning mop-heads and rags, and failed to reimburse her for the cost of using a laundromat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another plaintiff, Maria Paramo, claims that the same supervisor repeatedly grabbed her breasts and, at one point, digitally raped her by forcing his fingers into her vagina. Years later, the suit alleges he demanded oral sex in exchange for assigning her a full eight-hour shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company should be responsible. They can’t be blind or mute about what we say is happening to us,” Paramo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Paramo says the same supervisor who harassed Sanchez harassed her repeatedly and eventually assaulted her on the job. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ABM has been sued by the federal government three times for failing to protect workers from sexual harassment. Each time it agreed to improvements. As recently as 2013, the company was subject to a consent decree stemming from the federal lawsuit in the Central Valley. That decree spelled out specific steps to protect janitors from harassment on the job in Fresno and surrounding areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/sexual-abuse-claims-to-face-outside-review-at-nations-biggest-janitorial-firm/\">agreed to follow other steps\u003c/a> after a 2015 settlement in another case against ABM involving a female janitor who said she was raped by her supervisor at the San Francisco Ferry Building. As part of the terms of that case, ABM agreed to hire an outside neutral female investigator when it receives a complaint. The latest lawsuit alleges that when ABM did investigate the Fresno women’s case, it hired an investigator who had previously defended ABM against claims of sexual harassment in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company has broken its promises in numerous ways for many years,” said attorney Jennifer Reisch of Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco, who’s representing the women in this new case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the first or the second or the fifth time that this company has been sued by janitors who’ve been raped, sexually assaulted and harassed on the night shift,” Reisch said. “But I really, really hope that this the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisch said the company could be taking easy steps, like checking in with supervisors to make sure they’re not violating policies, and making it more clear where women can go to report harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ABM spokeswoman declined to comment on the Fresno lawsuit before deadline. In prior statements, the company has said its policies to address sexual abuse are the gold standard in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"documentcloud","attributes":{"named":{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5738781-Sanchez-Et-Al-v-ABM-Et-Al-Final-Complaint/","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11726127/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift","authors":["254"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_37","news_19948","news_18239","news_4435","news_18262"],"featImg":"news_11726146","label":"news_72"},"news_11692232":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11692232","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11692232","score":null,"sort":[1536877230000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"100-janitors-march-100-miles-to-stop-rape-on-the-night-shift","title":"100 Janitors March 100 Miles to Stop Rape on the Night Shift","publishDate":1536877230,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s the last thing you might expect to see on a suburban street corner in a Northern California town like Lafayette or Martinez: a caravan of women janitors wearing bright red bandannas, carrying giant posters reading “Ya Basta!” (\u003cem>Enough is enough!\u003c/em>) and chanting “Who owns my body? I do!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692248\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-800x614.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-960x737.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-375x288.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-520x399.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">100 women, mostly janitors and rape survivors, began their march at the Golden Gate Bridge. They're walking to Sacramento to ask Gov. Jerry Brown to sign AB 2079. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Navales)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The janitors, who come from across California, began their march on Monday at the Golden Gate Bridge. They're expected to arrive in Sacramento Friday for a rally and protest on the Capitol steps. They're asking Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill, AB 2079, they say would go a long way to preventing sexual abuse on the night shift. Many of them have been harassed, groped, even raped in the buildings they clean, often by supervisors who take advantage of their isolated working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692246\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692246\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors took off their T-shirts Monday at San Francisco City Hall to show pride in their bodies and to demand an end to a culture where male supervisors and co-workers sexualize them on the job. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Navales )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The janitors' campaign was launched after KQED, Reveal, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, Univision and Frontline produced a series called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Rape on the Night Shift.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reporting inspired a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11090957/rape-on-the-night-shift-investigation-helps-change-california-law\">law passed last year\u003c/a>, requiring janitorial companies to provide sexual harassment training for all employees. It was sponsored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher of San Diego. She has now pushed through a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second bill\u003c/a>, which would require janitorial companies to allow workers to give that training to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want human resources or some lawyer to gives us the classes,” says Marta Mejia, a janitor from Los Angeles on the march. “The harassment and violence will just continue at work. It won’t change anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejia has been training as a promotora, or peer educator, to learn how to talk to other janitors about preventing sexual violence. She and other building cleaners have even been taking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11642186/meet-female-janitors-learning-to-fight-back-literally-against-sexual-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-defense classes\u003c/a> to learn how to prevent a supervisor from attacking them if they’re alone at night cleaning an office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642715 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez attacks a dummy at a self-defense class hosted specifically for janitors by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Hernandez attacks a dummy at a self-defense class hosted specifically for janitors by the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the union behind the march, Service Employees International Union/United Service Workers West, worries that with a slew of #MeToo bills on his desk, Brown won’t see a reason for a special bill regarding janitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union’s secretary treasurer, Alejandra Valles, says that since Donald Trump was elected, there’s a heightened fear of deportation in the immigrant community, and she thinks women are more likely to confide in another janitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692249\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors rally Monday outside San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Navales)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Is it going to be somebody in a suit and tie or someone who looks like them?” Valles asks. “It makes the difference between whether that woman is going to live in silence or whether that woman’s going to actually report it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often times we deal with immigration status and sanctuary state on its own, or sexual violence in a silo, but that is not what's happening,” Valles adds. “This is a moment where California can lead on the intersection of immigration and sexual violence prevention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Chamber of Commerce argues that businesses should be able to decide who gives their HR training and how much to pay them. (The bill would mandate that janitor peer trainers be paid at least twice the state minimum wage.) You can read their opposition letter \u003ca href=\"http://blob.capitoltrack.com/17blobs/296a06e9-93d3-476e-ad77-d82c45016476\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The janitors on the march are planning civil disobedience and a protest at the Capitol Friday. Brown has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the bill.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The janitors are marching from the Golden Gate Bridge to Sacramento to back a California bill they say will add teeth to sexual harassment training.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1536953282,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":695},"headData":{"title":"100 Janitors March 100 Miles to Stop Rape on the Night Shift | KQED","description":"The janitors are marching from the Golden Gate Bridge to Sacramento to back a California bill they say will add teeth to sexual harassment training.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11692232 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11692232","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/09/13/100-janitors-march-100-miles-to-stop-rape-on-the-night-shift/","disqusTitle":"100 Janitors March 100 Miles to Stop Rape on the Night Shift","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio//2018/09/JanitorsMarchKhokaTCRAM180914.mp3","audioTrackLength":93,"path":"/news/11692232/100-janitors-march-100-miles-to-stop-rape-on-the-night-shift","audioDuration":93000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s the last thing you might expect to see on a suburban street corner in a Northern California town like Lafayette or Martinez: a caravan of women janitors wearing bright red bandannas, carrying giant posters reading “Ya Basta!” (\u003cem>Enough is enough!\u003c/em>) and chanting “Who owns my body? I do!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692248\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-800x614.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-960x737.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-375x288.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut-520x399.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32789_IMG_9851-3-qut.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">100 women, mostly janitors and rape survivors, began their march at the Golden Gate Bridge. They're walking to Sacramento to ask Gov. Jerry Brown to sign AB 2079. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Navales)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The janitors, who come from across California, began their march on Monday at the Golden Gate Bridge. They're expected to arrive in Sacramento Friday for a rally and protest on the Capitol steps. They're asking Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill, AB 2079, they say would go a long way to preventing sexual abuse on the night shift. Many of them have been harassed, groped, even raped in the buildings they clean, often by supervisors who take advantage of their isolated working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692246\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692246\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32792_img_3492-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors took off their T-shirts Monday at San Francisco City Hall to show pride in their bodies and to demand an end to a culture where male supervisors and co-workers sexualize them on the job. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Navales )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The janitors' campaign was launched after KQED, Reveal, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, Univision and Frontline produced a series called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Rape on the Night Shift.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reporting inspired a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11090957/rape-on-the-night-shift-investigation-helps-change-california-law\">law passed last year\u003c/a>, requiring janitorial companies to provide sexual harassment training for all employees. It was sponsored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher of San Diego. She has now pushed through a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second bill\u003c/a>, which would require janitorial companies to allow workers to give that training to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want human resources or some lawyer to gives us the classes,” says Marta Mejia, a janitor from Los Angeles on the march. “The harassment and violence will just continue at work. It won’t change anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejia has been training as a promotora, or peer educator, to learn how to talk to other janitors about preventing sexual violence. She and other building cleaners have even been taking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11642186/meet-female-janitors-learning-to-fight-back-literally-against-sexual-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-defense classes\u003c/a> to learn how to prevent a supervisor from attacking them if they’re alone at night cleaning an office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642715 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez attacks a dummy at a self-defense class hosted specifically for janitors by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Hernandez attacks a dummy at a self-defense class hosted specifically for janitors by the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the union behind the march, Service Employees International Union/United Service Workers West, worries that with a slew of #MeToo bills on his desk, Brown won’t see a reason for a special bill regarding janitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union’s secretary treasurer, Alejandra Valles, says that since Donald Trump was elected, there’s a heightened fear of deportation in the immigrant community, and she thinks women are more likely to confide in another janitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692249\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32794_dsc09386-2-copy-3-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors rally Monday outside San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Navales)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Is it going to be somebody in a suit and tie or someone who looks like them?” Valles asks. “It makes the difference between whether that woman is going to live in silence or whether that woman’s going to actually report it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often times we deal with immigration status and sanctuary state on its own, or sexual violence in a silo, but that is not what's happening,” Valles adds. “This is a moment where California can lead on the intersection of immigration and sexual violence prevention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Chamber of Commerce argues that businesses should be able to decide who gives their HR training and how much to pay them. (The bill would mandate that janitor peer trainers be paid at least twice the state minimum wage.) You can read their opposition letter \u003ca href=\"http://blob.capitoltrack.com/17blobs/296a06e9-93d3-476e-ad77-d82c45016476\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The janitors on the march are planning civil disobedience and a protest at the Capitol Friday. Brown has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the bill.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11692232/100-janitors-march-100-miles-to-stop-rape-on-the-night-shift","authors":["254"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19948","news_18239","news_18262","news_2700","news_20618"],"featImg":"news_11692245","label":"news_72"},"news_11642669":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11642669","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11642669","score":null,"sort":[1516403757000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"my-life-is-new-janitor-fights-back-after-assault-on-the-night-shift","title":"'My Life Is New': Janitor Fights Back After Assault on the Night Shift","publishDate":1516403757,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>In the #MeToo era, KQED is revisiting its groundbreaking “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/a>” series from 2015. Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, KQED uncovered extreme sexual abuses of janitorial workers that went unpunished by their employers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met a janitor named Georgina Hernandez, she was timid and teary-eyed. She had worked at a hotel where she cleaned the lobby and, in a lawsuit, said she was raped on the job by her supervisor. She was a single mom, supporting her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you need the job, you become a victim by not having the courage to say 'no,' ” she told me in her native Spanish. “And if you say 'no,' you are going to lose the job. I didn’t have someone to tell, or anyone I could trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642702\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez (L) with investigator Vicky Hernandez (R) who works with the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. Hernandez grew to trust Hernandez and eventually told her she'd been assaulted by her supervisor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-800x798.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-1020x1017.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-1180x1176.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-960x957.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-240x239.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-375x374.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-520x518.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Hernandez (L) with investigator Vicky Hernandez (R), who works with the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. Georgina grew to trust Vicky and eventually told her she'd been assaulted by her supervisor. \u003ccite>(Daffodil Altan/CIR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I met Hernandez in Los Angeles in 2015, while reporting for an investigative journalism project that started long before the #MeToo movement. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Rape on the Night Shift\" \u003c/a>exposed how immigrant janitors, working alone at night in isolated buildings, are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence. I co-reported the story with a team from \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/nightshift/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/announcement/update-irps-rape-night-shift-air-frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spent months talking with janitors and following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.janitorialwatch.org/\">watchdog group\u003c/a> of undercover investigators in Southern California. They’re former janitors who go into buildings at night to make sure workers are being paid fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez was one of the women these investigators met on the job. She cleaned a movie theater and a restaurant, scrubbing grease off the ceiling fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked from 11 at night until 11 in the morning,” she told us. \"I didn’t get overtime, I didn’t have rest breaks. I worked without stopping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was another job -- cleaning a hotel lobby -- where her supervisor harassed her constantly. In a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit she filed\u003c/a>, Hernandez says he sexually assaulted her in the parking garage, where there were no security cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an experience that I wouldn’t wish upon any woman,” she told me back in 2015. During that interview, she could only describe what had happened to her as \"sexual harassment,\" and she could hardly even make eye contact with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today she’s a different person. When I meet up with her in early December, Hernandez is leading other women in a self-defense class in downtown L.A. They form a circle, and practice how to shout “no!” to fend off an attacker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez makes a fist after a self-defense class held for women janitors by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Hernandez demonstrates how to make a fist at a self-defense class held for women janitors by the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hernandez has got a big grin on her face as she shows the other women how to make a fist to punch someone in the nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re practicing on large mannequins with muscled torsos dressed in red T-shirts. Hernandez is not intimidated by the menacing expressions on their plastic faces as she digs her thumbs into the mannequin’s eye sockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her how it feels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good! I’m mad!” she says, banging her fist into her palm. “I wish I could do it for real!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, her dark ponytail swings back and forth as she kicks a plastic mat hard, practicing how to aim for an attacker’s testicles. Part of the exercise is learning how to say that word aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642715 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez attacks a dummy at a self-defense class hosted specifically for janitors by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A janitor attacks a dummy at a self-defense class hosted specifically for janitors by the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My life is new,” she says. “I almost don’t even recognize myself. Now I’m confident in myself, I’m not afraid. Before I was afraid of my own shadow. I’m not afraid of anything anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez’s transformation, from a frightened worker who felt alone in her struggle to strong group leader willing to speak up for herself and other women, came after she met other women janitors who had also been harassed or raped on the job by their supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those women had watched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanish-language version\u003c/a> of our documentary “Rape on the Night Shift” at screenings sponsored by California’s janitors’ union, SEIU-United Service Workers West. After many of those screenings, women stood up and shared their own stories of abuse. Georgina became part of a larger campaign to fight back called “Ya Basta” -- “Enough is Enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642723\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642723\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A billboard encouraging people to support AB 1978, which requires anti-sexual harassment training for all janitors.\" width=\"475\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut.jpg 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut-160x49.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut-240x74.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut-375x115.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A billboard encouraging people to support AB 1978, which requires anti-sexual harassment training for all janitors. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The janitors began protesting in the streets. They put up billboards across the San Francisco Bay Area urging: “End Rape on the Night Shift.” And they organized a push for legislation that would increase protections for janitors. It was backed by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're talking about immigrant women, many undocumented immigrant women who, in a very personal way, need safety in their workplace,” Gonzalez Fletcher says. “And we're fighting not only the janitorial companies, but the business owners who hired those janitorial companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new law\u003c/a> requires sexual harassment training for all janitors and their supervisors. Companies that don’t comply can’t do business in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make sure that the workers knew their rights, that supervisors knew what the law was as well,” Gonzalez Fletcher says. “We've got to continue to say, 'Who do we hold responsible? And how do we hold them responsible? And what happens for companies who don’t take allegations seriously?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez was one of the janitors from across California who joined a five-day hunger strike outside the state Capitol as they waited for the AB 1978 to become law in 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Hernandez was one of the janitors from across California who joined a five-day hunger strike outside the state Capitol as they waited for AB 1978 to become law in 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bill also creates a registry of janitorial companies, so the state can keep track of subcontractors and tiny fly-by-night operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she lobbied for the bill, Gonzalez Fletcher got some of her colleagues in the legislative women’s caucus to wear a janitor’s uniform for a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Georgina Hernandez was one of the janitors from across California who joined a five-day hunger strike outside the state Capitol as they waited for the bill to become law. When they got word that Gov. Jerry Brown had in fact signed the bill, they collapsed into a giant heap, hugging one another as some wept and others shouted cries of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/seiuusww/status/776587653831467009\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez says she realizes that by telling her story, she has power. She helped \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/20/rape-on-the-night-shift-investigation-helps-change-california-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">change California law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud that women [janitors] are standing up now, aren’t scared,” she says. “It hurts. It makes you angry, but you have to break the silence. You can’t be embarrassed. It’s not your fault. It’s happened to lots of women. Not just one or two, but thousands are behind me, speaking up. Maybe our world as immigrant women will change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lilia Garcia-Brower heads up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.janitorialwatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund\u003c/a>, a watchdog group based in Los Angeles that goes undercover to expose abuse and educate and advocate for janitors. She, too, can’t believe how much has changed for Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at Georgina’s trajectory, it's amazing,” Garcia-Brower says. “How do we bring that to scale that experience with Georgina, the support we were able to provide? It’s all within her. But I believe that with all of these women, it's all within them. It’s just creating the opportunity for them to come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1020x971.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1180x1123.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-960x914.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-520x495.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updated reporting \u003c/a> from Reveal on the nation's largest janitorial company\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How a group of janitors \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started a movement\u003c/a> to stop sexual abuse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Frontline's updated \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Rape on the Night Shift\" documentary\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision: en español\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Revisit our original reporting from 2015.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Part I: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Working Alone, at Night, Janitors Risk Sexual Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part II: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/whats-government-doing-prevent-janitors-getting-raped-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">What’s the Government Doing to Prevent Janitors From Getting Raped?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part III: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Former Janitors Go Undercover to Clean Up Abuses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Original\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> in-depth report\u003c/a> by Reveal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reportaje detallado por Reveal\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/bajo-la-oscuridad-trabajadoras-de-limpieza-enfrentan-violaciones-y-acoso/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> en espanol\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hernandez is still working nights and early mornings as a janitor. But now she says she knows her rights, and the self-defense classes have helped her feel like she knows how to fight back. She says the idea is to take what she’s learning to the buildings where women are cleaning and train them during their meal breaks on techniques for protecting themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we teach one of them, it’s like a chain,” Hernandez says. “And they all learn their rights and how to defend themselves. To learn how to stay alert if some wolf tries to get close to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants people to know that janitors like her have been speaking up long before the #MeToo movement. She says watching women from Hollywood and the corporate world speak up about harassment has been bittersweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sad and angry at the same time” Hernandez says. “Those women have money, they’re powerful, they have everything in life that I don’t have. I’m proud of them for speaking up. But who listened to me? Nobody. These are important women. But I'm important, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can hear more of our update to \"Rape on the Night Shift\" on \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/nightshift/\">Reveal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/\">watch the documentary\u003c/a> on PBS FRONTLINE. Bernice Yeung, who co-reported this story, is the author of the forthcoming book \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781620973158\">In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Rape on the Night Shift\" is an investigative collaboration between KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-160x13.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-240x19.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-375x29.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-520x41.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Years before the #MeToo movement, women janitors in California spoke out about sexual abuse. In the process, they changed the law and themselves.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1516404311,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1809},"headData":{"title":"'My Life Is New': Janitor Fights Back After Assault on the Night Shift | KQED","description":"Years before the #MeToo movement, women janitors in California spoke out about sexual abuse. In the process, they changed the law and themselves.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11642669 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11642669","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/19/my-life-is-new-janitor-fights-back-after-assault-on-the-night-shift/","disqusTitle":"'My Life Is New': Janitor Fights Back After Assault on the Night Shift","source":"Rape on the Night Shift","sourceUrl":"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/01/KhokhaNightShiftUpdate.mp3","path":"/news/11642669/my-life-is-new-janitor-fights-back-after-assault-on-the-night-shift","audioDuration":412000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>In the #MeToo era, KQED is revisiting its groundbreaking “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/a>” series from 2015. Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, KQED uncovered extreme sexual abuses of janitorial workers that went unpunished by their employers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met a janitor named Georgina Hernandez, she was timid and teary-eyed. She had worked at a hotel where she cleaned the lobby and, in a lawsuit, said she was raped on the job by her supervisor. She was a single mom, supporting her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you need the job, you become a victim by not having the courage to say 'no,' ” she told me in her native Spanish. “And if you say 'no,' you are going to lose the job. I didn’t have someone to tell, or anyone I could trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642702\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez (L) with investigator Vicky Hernandez (R) who works with the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. Hernandez grew to trust Hernandez and eventually told her she'd been assaulted by her supervisor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-800x798.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-1020x1017.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-1180x1176.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-960x957.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-240x239.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-375x374.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-520x518.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28906_Vicky-and-Georgina-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Hernandez (L) with investigator Vicky Hernandez (R), who works with the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. Georgina grew to trust Vicky and eventually told her she'd been assaulted by her supervisor. \u003ccite>(Daffodil Altan/CIR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I met Hernandez in Los Angeles in 2015, while reporting for an investigative journalism project that started long before the #MeToo movement. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Rape on the Night Shift\" \u003c/a>exposed how immigrant janitors, working alone at night in isolated buildings, are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence. I co-reported the story with a team from \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/nightshift/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/announcement/update-irps-rape-night-shift-air-frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spent months talking with janitors and following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.janitorialwatch.org/\">watchdog group\u003c/a> of undercover investigators in Southern California. They’re former janitors who go into buildings at night to make sure workers are being paid fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez was one of the women these investigators met on the job. She cleaned a movie theater and a restaurant, scrubbing grease off the ceiling fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked from 11 at night until 11 in the morning,” she told us. \"I didn’t get overtime, I didn’t have rest breaks. I worked without stopping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was another job -- cleaning a hotel lobby -- where her supervisor harassed her constantly. In a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit she filed\u003c/a>, Hernandez says he sexually assaulted her in the parking garage, where there were no security cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an experience that I wouldn’t wish upon any woman,” she told me back in 2015. During that interview, she could only describe what had happened to her as \"sexual harassment,\" and she could hardly even make eye contact with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today she’s a different person. When I meet up with her in early December, Hernandez is leading other women in a self-defense class in downtown L.A. They form a circle, and practice how to shout “no!” to fend off an attacker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez makes a fist after a self-defense class held for women janitors by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28915_A006C009_171203F60-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Hernandez demonstrates how to make a fist at a self-defense class held for women janitors by the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hernandez has got a big grin on her face as she shows the other women how to make a fist to punch someone in the nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re practicing on large mannequins with muscled torsos dressed in red T-shirts. Hernandez is not intimidated by the menacing expressions on their plastic faces as she digs her thumbs into the mannequin’s eye sockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her how it feels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good! I’m mad!” she says, banging her fist into her palm. “I wish I could do it for real!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, her dark ponytail swings back and forth as she kicks a plastic mat hard, practicing how to aim for an attacker’s testicles. Part of the exercise is learning how to say that word aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642715 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez attacks a dummy at a self-defense class hosted specifically for janitors by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28909_Georgina-Self-Defense-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A janitor attacks a dummy at a self-defense class hosted specifically for janitors by the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. The organization plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My life is new,” she says. “I almost don’t even recognize myself. Now I’m confident in myself, I’m not afraid. Before I was afraid of my own shadow. I’m not afraid of anything anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez’s transformation, from a frightened worker who felt alone in her struggle to strong group leader willing to speak up for herself and other women, came after she met other women janitors who had also been harassed or raped on the job by their supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those women had watched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanish-language version\u003c/a> of our documentary “Rape on the Night Shift” at screenings sponsored by California’s janitors’ union, SEIU-United Service Workers West. After many of those screenings, women stood up and shared their own stories of abuse. Georgina became part of a larger campaign to fight back called “Ya Basta” -- “Enough is Enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642723\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642723\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A billboard encouraging people to support AB 1978, which requires anti-sexual harassment training for all janitors.\" width=\"475\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut.jpg 475w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut-160x49.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut-240x74.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28911_Billboard-qut-375x115.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A billboard encouraging people to support AB 1978, which requires anti-sexual harassment training for all janitors. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The janitors began protesting in the streets. They put up billboards across the San Francisco Bay Area urging: “End Rape on the Night Shift.” And they organized a push for legislation that would increase protections for janitors. It was backed by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're talking about immigrant women, many undocumented immigrant women who, in a very personal way, need safety in their workplace,” Gonzalez Fletcher says. “And we're fighting not only the janitorial companies, but the business owners who hired those janitorial companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new law\u003c/a> requires sexual harassment training for all janitors and their supervisors. Companies that don’t comply can’t do business in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make sure that the workers knew their rights, that supervisors knew what the law was as well,” Gonzalez Fletcher says. “We've got to continue to say, 'Who do we hold responsible? And how do we hold them responsible? And what happens for companies who don’t take allegations seriously?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Hernandez was one of the janitors from across California who joined a five-day hunger strike outside the state Capitol as they waited for the AB 1978 to become law in 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28920_IMG_4545-2-qut-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Hernandez was one of the janitors from across California who joined a five-day hunger strike outside the state Capitol as they waited for AB 1978 to become law in 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bill also creates a registry of janitorial companies, so the state can keep track of subcontractors and tiny fly-by-night operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she lobbied for the bill, Gonzalez Fletcher got some of her colleagues in the legislative women’s caucus to wear a janitor’s uniform for a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Georgina Hernandez was one of the janitors from across California who joined a five-day hunger strike outside the state Capitol as they waited for the bill to become law. When they got word that Gov. Jerry Brown had in fact signed the bill, they collapsed into a giant heap, hugging one another as some wept and others shouted cries of relief.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"776587653831467009"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Hernandez says she realizes that by telling her story, she has power. She helped \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/20/rape-on-the-night-shift-investigation-helps-change-california-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">change California law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud that women [janitors] are standing up now, aren’t scared,” she says. “It hurts. It makes you angry, but you have to break the silence. You can’t be embarrassed. It’s not your fault. It’s happened to lots of women. Not just one or two, but thousands are behind me, speaking up. Maybe our world as immigrant women will change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lilia Garcia-Brower heads up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.janitorialwatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund\u003c/a>, a watchdog group based in Los Angeles that goes undercover to expose abuse and educate and advocate for janitors. She, too, can’t believe how much has changed for Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at Georgina’s trajectory, it's amazing,” Garcia-Brower says. “How do we bring that to scale that experience with Georgina, the support we were able to provide? It’s all within her. But I believe that with all of these women, it's all within them. It’s just creating the opportunity for them to come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1020x971.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1180x1123.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-960x914.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-520x495.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updated reporting \u003c/a> from Reveal on the nation's largest janitorial company\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How a group of janitors \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started a movement\u003c/a> to stop sexual abuse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Frontline's updated \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Rape on the Night Shift\" documentary\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision: en español\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Revisit our original reporting from 2015.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Part I: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Working Alone, at Night, Janitors Risk Sexual Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part II: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/whats-government-doing-prevent-janitors-getting-raped-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">What’s the Government Doing to Prevent Janitors From Getting Raped?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part III: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Former Janitors Go Undercover to Clean Up Abuses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Original\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> in-depth report\u003c/a> by Reveal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reportaje detallado por Reveal\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/bajo-la-oscuridad-trabajadoras-de-limpieza-enfrentan-violaciones-y-acoso/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> en espanol\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hernandez is still working nights and early mornings as a janitor. But now she says she knows her rights, and the self-defense classes have helped her feel like she knows how to fight back. She says the idea is to take what she’s learning to the buildings where women are cleaning and train them during their meal breaks on techniques for protecting themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we teach one of them, it’s like a chain,” Hernandez says. “And they all learn their rights and how to defend themselves. To learn how to stay alert if some wolf tries to get close to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants people to know that janitors like her have been speaking up long before the #MeToo movement. She says watching women from Hollywood and the corporate world speak up about harassment has been bittersweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sad and angry at the same time” Hernandez says. “Those women have money, they’re powerful, they have everything in life that I don’t have. I’m proud of them for speaking up. But who listened to me? Nobody. These are important women. But I'm important, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can hear more of our update to \"Rape on the Night Shift\" on \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/nightshift/\">Reveal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/\">watch the documentary\u003c/a> on PBS FRONTLINE. Bernice Yeung, who co-reported this story, is the author of the forthcoming book \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781620973158\">In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Rape on the Night Shift\" is an investigative collaboration between KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-160x13.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-240x19.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-375x29.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-520x41.png 520w, 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immigrant women, begin their night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they work, they are often alone or isolated in empty buildings, vulnerable to sexual violence. Among those who have faced assault, many are afraid to come forward out of fear that they’ll be fired or deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vuBWvdJkkw&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hidden reality was revealed in \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" a 2015 investigation from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frontline,\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/documentales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a> and KQED in which female janitors spoke out about abuse by their supervisors and co-workers — despite the risks, and years before the burgeoning #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonight on PBS, an updated version of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Rape on the Night Shift\"\u003c/a> continues their story — exploring how the government, businesses and law enforcement are responding to the problem, and how the women themselves are fighting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the above scene from \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" go inside a self-defense class being held specifically for female janitors. 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Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, KQED uncovered extreme sexual abuses of janitorial workers that went unpunished by their employers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before #MeToo went viral, an unlikely group of women – night shift janitors – started their own movement to stand up to the extreme sexual harassment they experience on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hasn’t been easy. They’ve had to battle resistance from within their own ranks – including jeering from male co-workers. They’ve had to demand that the public and lawmakers pay attention to a problem they’ve lived with for years. They’ve had to put their bodies on the line with a hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642096\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1020x971.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1180x1123.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-960x914.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-520x495.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">Updated reporting \u003c/a> from Reveal on the nation's largest janitorial company\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How a group of janitors \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse/\" target=\"_blank\">started a movement\u003c/a> to stop sexual abuse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Frontline's updated \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Rape on the Night Shift\" documentary\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\">Univision: en español\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003ch2>Revisit our original reporting from 2015.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>Part I: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Working Alone, at Night, Janitors Risk Sexual Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part II: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/whats-government-doing-prevent-janitors-getting-raped-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">What’s the Government Doing to Prevent Janitors From Getting Raped?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part III: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Former Janitors Go Undercover to Clean Up Abuses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Original\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\"> in-depth report\u003c/a> by Reveal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reportaje detallado por Reveal\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/bajo-la-oscuridad-trabajadoras-de-limpieza-enfrentan-violaciones-y-acoso/\" target=\"_blank\"> en espanol\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It all started in early 2016, when leaders of the janitors union in California got news that shocked them: The vast majority of their members had either witnessed or experienced sexual harassment on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most unions, the Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West, which represents janitors in California, had been focused on wages and working conditions. Sexual harassment wasn’t a priority until the union leadership watched the “Rape on the Night Shift” \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/?utm_source=Partner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documentary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film was part of a 2015 collaboration among Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, KQED, FRONTLINE and Univision. The project told the stories of janitors who said their supervisors exploit their power – and the solitude of the night shift – to violently harass them while their employers look the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Rape on the Night Shift investigation, there’s been an effort to find real fixes to an entrenched problem. It’s resulted in policy change, but it’s also activated California’s janitors union and individual workers to combat on-the-job sexual violence in an unprecedented way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, the janitors had to overcome a series of hurdles. Here’s how they did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The union asked its members about sexual harassment. It was surprised by what it found.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At first, some union leaders didn’t want to take on the issue because it seemed so far afield from what they normally tackle, and they weren’t sure they had the expertise to respond to sexual trauma. But after seeing how severe the problem was, they were motivated to address sexual harassment directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took the rare step of adding a question about sexual harassment to the survey the union sends to its members in preparation for contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results startled them. About half of the 5,000 workers who responded said they had been sexually harassed or sexually assaulted at work, and another quarter had witnessed it. It had become clear to the union that it had to take a more proactive stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"This was just alarming. As a union that represents predominantly immigrant janitors and 70 percent of them are women, I just said, ‘We can’t be a janitors union if we don’t do anything about this.’ We have to take on this issue that is rampant in this industry.\"\u003ccite> Alejandra Valles, SEIU-USWW secretary-treasurer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642110 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandra Valles helped push California's janitors' union to tackle sexual harassment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandra Valles helped push California's janitors' union to tackle sexual harassment. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Then they got the men on board.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 2016, the union convened a meeting of hundreds of its members to talk about the new labor contract. There, bargaining committee member Veronica Lagunas announced to the crowd that the union planned to make sexual harassment a priority in its contract negotiations with big employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she spoke, a low roar came from the crowd – some men in the audience were booing her. Loudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s president, David Huerta, asked for the microphone and demanded that the men do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"I just started giving it to them really hard: ‘This is ridiculous. I cannot believe we're going to sit here and one, not let our compañera speak, because that's not what this organization is about. But two, this is a real issue. This is an issue that we have to confront. If the men in this room cannot find it in themselves to fight on this issue, then you have to ask yourself what you're doing here.’ It was just a straight challenge to them.\"\u003ccite>David Huerta, SEIU-USWW president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That was a turning point for the union. Huerta’s confrontation of the booing men empowered female workers to stand their ground on the issue, and it settled the debate: The union was going to take on sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks later, the California janitors union signed a new contract with the largest cleaning companies in the state, and it included new provisions related to sexual harassment. Now, supervisors would not be allowed to date workers they manage, cleaning companies would have to improve how they conduct sexual harassment investigations, and employers would be required to provide information about a confidential hotline so that workers could seek help if they've been harassed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lagunas reported the news to the union's membership, no one booed this time around. Instead, there were cheers, and some workers threw their fists in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Advocates found a lawmaker to take the issue to Sacramento.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642109 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='After watching \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) was moved to introduce legislation to protect janitors.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After watching \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) was moved to introduce legislation to protect janitors. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after watching the “Rape on the Night Shift” documentary, a union official nudged Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, a Democrat and former union leader from San Diego, to watch it, too. She said she was outraged by what she saw and decided to seek a legislative response as soon as she could.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“I watched it twice. I think I spent the whole first time watching the documentary saying, ‘Well, of course this happens, but I can't believe we've never thought about this.’ And then I watched it immediately again, to say, ‘What could we do? What can we do about this? This is not acceptable.’ ”\u003ccite>Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, California assemblywoman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A few months later, Gonzalez Fletcher introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Property Services Workers Protection Act\u003c/a>, which aimed to curb sexual harassment in the janitorial industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for the bill was bolstered by a report from UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, “\u003ca href=\"http://lohp.org/the-perfect-storm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Perfect Storm\u003c/a>,” which explores the circumstances that make janitors vulnerable to sexual violence at work and cites Rape on the Night Shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"A key finding of the report is that the property services industry is structured in a way that isolates workers who are uniquely vulnerable to sexual harassment, and then creates conditions in which workers are afraid to step forward to report harassment.\"\u003ccite>“The Perfect Storm”\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To build support for the bill, Gonzalez Fletcher asked female janitors to testify about the violence they’d experienced at work. The bill’s supporters also found novel ways to raise awareness of the issue when nearly two dozen female legislators wore janitors’ uniforms to the California State Capitol to show their support for women working the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janitors demanded public attention.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642108 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='Janitors march with signs saying \"Ya Basta!\" or \"Enough is Enough!\" to encourage the passage of new laws protecting workers from sexual abuse.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors march with signs saying \"Ya Basta!\" or \"Enough is Enough!\" to encourage the passage of new laws protecting workers from sexual abuse. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From billboards on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to rallies throughout the state, California’s janitors began making noise about sexual harassment in 2016, long before #MeToo captured the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dozens of marches, they held up signs that read, “Ya Basta,” which means “Enough is enough” in Spanish. At a rally in Sacramento, a handful of janitors blocked an intersection and unfurled a banner that read, “End Rape on the Night Shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a ready-made group of janitors willing to speak out against sexual harassment. The union and The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund, an organization that supports non-unionized janitors, had found a way to turn workers into leaders through a new anti-sexual violence program designed for janitors by the East Los Angeles Women’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The janitors were trained to assist other women who had been sexually harassed at work, and these “promotoras,” or community-based trainers, were charged with sharing what they’d learned with other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez Fletcher’s bill gave the first group of promotoras a way to put their training into direct action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janitors put their bodies on the line.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642114 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Janitor Georgina Hernandez at a hunger strike outside the State Capitol in Sacramento.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Georgina Hernandez at a hunger strike outside the State Capitol in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a week in the fall of 2016, a group of about a dozen janitors staged a hunger strike on the lawn in front of the California State Capitol. The promotoras and worker advocates had stationed themselves near the statehouse to put pressure on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign Gonzalez Fletcher’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, they met with supporters, including famed farmworker organizer Dolores Huerta. They read letters they’d written to their attackers. They shared their stories of assault and rape. Each day, as the sun set, they left their posts near the Capitol to sleep at a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the afternoon of the fourth day of fasting, a member of the governor’s staff walked from the Capitol toward the group of women. As she approached, she told them that the governor wanted them to know that he had just signed the bill. The staff member showed the women a picture of the signed document on her phone. They gathered around her to look at it in disbelief before tearfully collapsing into a group hug.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“We have made history. I feel very proud that all of us opened up this space and we broke that silence. We made history, being that we are poor, we are humble, we come from the bottom. It doesn’t matter what your status is, it doesn’t matter the color of your skin – nobody should harm your body because no means no.”\u003ccite>Martha Mejia, janitor and hunger striker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now the law requires anti-sexual harassment training for all janitors, and employers that don’t comply by 2019 can’t do business in California. And because the industry is filled with many black market and fly-by-night companies, it also creates a registry of janitorial companies so bad actors can be held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker rights and anti-sexual violence organizations that pushed for the bill also have come together to start the Ya Basta Coalition. The group is working on creating more effective anti-sexual harassment training for all low-income workers. Some serve on a government advisory committee to implement the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They trained themselves in self-defense.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642112 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Janitors learn how to fend off attackers on the job at a self-defense class.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors learn how to fend off attackers on the job at a self-defense class. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning last month, nearly a dozen female janitors wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Ya basta” learned to punch, kick and jab an attacker by practicing on imposing plastic dummies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had gathered at the union headquarters in Los Angeles to learn how to defend themselves against aggressors as they worked on the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through live demonstrations and role play, they were taught how to be fully aware of their environment, how to exude confidence and how to state loudly and unequivocally that they do not want to be propositioned or touched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the first self-defense class for janitors hosted by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. But it was just the beginning. Lilia Garcia-Brower, the organization’s executive director, said she plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. The hope is that each cleaner will teach these techniques to a co-worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“We're essentially looking to create an army of female janitors who are committed to go out and talk to as many female janitors as possible so that they too can understand that they have the power within them to defend themselves and society is wrong. And as we go one by one, one worker at a time, we're going to get there to make that shift.”\u003ccite>Lilia Garcia-Brower, executive director of The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Garcia-Brower said the class isn’t just about throwing a punch – it’s also about teaching women that they have the power to expect a safe workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Rape on the Night Shift\" is an investigative collaboration between KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-160x13.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-240x19.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-375x29.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-520x41.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The reforms came after the 'Rape on the Night Shift' project first uncovered pervasive sexual violence in the janitorial industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1516306591,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":2283},"headData":{"title":"How a Group of Janitors Started a Movement to Stop Sexual Abuse | KQED","description":"The reforms came after the 'Rape on the Night Shift' project first uncovered pervasive sexual violence in the janitorial industry.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11642102 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11642102","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/16/how-a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse/","disqusTitle":"How a Group of Janitors Started a Movement to Stop Sexual Abuse","source":"Reveal","sourceUrl":"https://www.revealnews.org","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=”https://www.revealnews.org/author/bernice-yeung/”>Bernice Yeung\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11642102/how-a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>In the #MeToo era, KQED is revisiting its groundbreaking “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/a>” series from 2015. Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, KQED uncovered extreme sexual abuses of janitorial workers that went unpunished by their employers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before #MeToo went viral, an unlikely group of women – night shift janitors – started their own movement to stand up to the extreme sexual harassment they experience on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hasn’t been easy. They’ve had to battle resistance from within their own ranks – including jeering from male co-workers. They’ve had to demand that the public and lawmakers pay attention to a problem they’ve lived with for years. They’ve had to put their bodies on the line with a hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642096\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1020x971.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1180x1123.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-960x914.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-520x495.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">Updated reporting \u003c/a> from Reveal on the nation's largest janitorial company\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How a group of janitors \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse/\" target=\"_blank\">started a movement\u003c/a> to stop sexual abuse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Frontline's updated \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Rape on the Night Shift\" documentary\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\">Univision: en español\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003ch2>Revisit our original reporting from 2015.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>Part I: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Working Alone, at Night, Janitors Risk Sexual Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part II: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/whats-government-doing-prevent-janitors-getting-raped-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">What’s the Government Doing to Prevent Janitors From Getting Raped?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part III: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Former Janitors Go Undercover to Clean Up Abuses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Original\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\"> in-depth report\u003c/a> by Reveal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reportaje detallado por Reveal\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/bajo-la-oscuridad-trabajadoras-de-limpieza-enfrentan-violaciones-y-acoso/\" target=\"_blank\"> en espanol\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It all started in early 2016, when leaders of the janitors union in California got news that shocked them: The vast majority of their members had either witnessed or experienced sexual harassment on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most unions, the Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West, which represents janitors in California, had been focused on wages and working conditions. Sexual harassment wasn’t a priority until the union leadership watched the “Rape on the Night Shift” \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/?utm_source=Partner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documentary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film was part of a 2015 collaboration among Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, KQED, FRONTLINE and Univision. The project told the stories of janitors who said their supervisors exploit their power – and the solitude of the night shift – to violently harass them while their employers look the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Rape on the Night Shift investigation, there’s been an effort to find real fixes to an entrenched problem. It’s resulted in policy change, but it’s also activated California’s janitors union and individual workers to combat on-the-job sexual violence in an unprecedented way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, the janitors had to overcome a series of hurdles. Here’s how they did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The union asked its members about sexual harassment. It was surprised by what it found.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At first, some union leaders didn’t want to take on the issue because it seemed so far afield from what they normally tackle, and they weren’t sure they had the expertise to respond to sexual trauma. But after seeing how severe the problem was, they were motivated to address sexual harassment directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took the rare step of adding a question about sexual harassment to the survey the union sends to its members in preparation for contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results startled them. About half of the 5,000 workers who responded said they had been sexually harassed or sexually assaulted at work, and another quarter had witnessed it. It had become clear to the union that it had to take a more proactive stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"This was just alarming. As a union that represents predominantly immigrant janitors and 70 percent of them are women, I just said, ‘We can’t be a janitors union if we don’t do anything about this.’ We have to take on this issue that is rampant in this industry.\"\u003ccite> Alejandra Valles, SEIU-USWW secretary-treasurer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642110 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandra Valles helped push California's janitors' union to tackle sexual harassment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandra Valles helped push California's janitors' union to tackle sexual harassment. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Then they got the men on board.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 2016, the union convened a meeting of hundreds of its members to talk about the new labor contract. There, bargaining committee member Veronica Lagunas announced to the crowd that the union planned to make sexual harassment a priority in its contract negotiations with big employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she spoke, a low roar came from the crowd – some men in the audience were booing her. Loudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s president, David Huerta, asked for the microphone and demanded that the men do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"I just started giving it to them really hard: ‘This is ridiculous. I cannot believe we're going to sit here and one, not let our compañera speak, because that's not what this organization is about. But two, this is a real issue. This is an issue that we have to confront. If the men in this room cannot find it in themselves to fight on this issue, then you have to ask yourself what you're doing here.’ It was just a straight challenge to them.\"\u003ccite>David Huerta, SEIU-USWW president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That was a turning point for the union. Huerta’s confrontation of the booing men empowered female workers to stand their ground on the issue, and it settled the debate: The union was going to take on sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks later, the California janitors union signed a new contract with the largest cleaning companies in the state, and it included new provisions related to sexual harassment. Now, supervisors would not be allowed to date workers they manage, cleaning companies would have to improve how they conduct sexual harassment investigations, and employers would be required to provide information about a confidential hotline so that workers could seek help if they've been harassed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lagunas reported the news to the union's membership, no one booed this time around. Instead, there were cheers, and some workers threw their fists in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Advocates found a lawmaker to take the issue to Sacramento.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642109 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='After watching \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) was moved to introduce legislation to protect janitors.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After watching \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) was moved to introduce legislation to protect janitors. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after watching the “Rape on the Night Shift” documentary, a union official nudged Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, a Democrat and former union leader from San Diego, to watch it, too. She said she was outraged by what she saw and decided to seek a legislative response as soon as she could.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“I watched it twice. I think I spent the whole first time watching the documentary saying, ‘Well, of course this happens, but I can't believe we've never thought about this.’ And then I watched it immediately again, to say, ‘What could we do? What can we do about this? This is not acceptable.’ ”\u003ccite>Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, California assemblywoman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A few months later, Gonzalez Fletcher introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Property Services Workers Protection Act\u003c/a>, which aimed to curb sexual harassment in the janitorial industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for the bill was bolstered by a report from UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, “\u003ca href=\"http://lohp.org/the-perfect-storm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Perfect Storm\u003c/a>,” which explores the circumstances that make janitors vulnerable to sexual violence at work and cites Rape on the Night Shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"A key finding of the report is that the property services industry is structured in a way that isolates workers who are uniquely vulnerable to sexual harassment, and then creates conditions in which workers are afraid to step forward to report harassment.\"\u003ccite>“The Perfect Storm”\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To build support for the bill, Gonzalez Fletcher asked female janitors to testify about the violence they’d experienced at work. The bill’s supporters also found novel ways to raise awareness of the issue when nearly two dozen female legislators wore janitors’ uniforms to the California State Capitol to show their support for women working the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janitors demanded public attention.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642108 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='Janitors march with signs saying \"Ya Basta!\" or \"Enough is Enough!\" to encourage the passage of new laws protecting workers from sexual abuse.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors march with signs saying \"Ya Basta!\" or \"Enough is Enough!\" to encourage the passage of new laws protecting workers from sexual abuse. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From billboards on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to rallies throughout the state, California’s janitors began making noise about sexual harassment in 2016, long before #MeToo captured the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dozens of marches, they held up signs that read, “Ya Basta,” which means “Enough is enough” in Spanish. At a rally in Sacramento, a handful of janitors blocked an intersection and unfurled a banner that read, “End Rape on the Night Shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a ready-made group of janitors willing to speak out against sexual harassment. The union and The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund, an organization that supports non-unionized janitors, had found a way to turn workers into leaders through a new anti-sexual violence program designed for janitors by the East Los Angeles Women’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The janitors were trained to assist other women who had been sexually harassed at work, and these “promotoras,” or community-based trainers, were charged with sharing what they’d learned with other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez Fletcher’s bill gave the first group of promotoras a way to put their training into direct action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janitors put their bodies on the line.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642114 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Janitor Georgina Hernandez at a hunger strike outside the State Capitol in Sacramento.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Georgina Hernandez at a hunger strike outside the State Capitol in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a week in the fall of 2016, a group of about a dozen janitors staged a hunger strike on the lawn in front of the California State Capitol. The promotoras and worker advocates had stationed themselves near the statehouse to put pressure on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign Gonzalez Fletcher’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, they met with supporters, including famed farmworker organizer Dolores Huerta. They read letters they’d written to their attackers. They shared their stories of assault and rape. Each day, as the sun set, they left their posts near the Capitol to sleep at a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the afternoon of the fourth day of fasting, a member of the governor’s staff walked from the Capitol toward the group of women. As she approached, she told them that the governor wanted them to know that he had just signed the bill. The staff member showed the women a picture of the signed document on her phone. They gathered around her to look at it in disbelief before tearfully collapsing into a group hug.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“We have made history. I feel very proud that all of us opened up this space and we broke that silence. We made history, being that we are poor, we are humble, we come from the bottom. It doesn’t matter what your status is, it doesn’t matter the color of your skin – nobody should harm your body because no means no.”\u003ccite>Martha Mejia, janitor and hunger striker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now the law requires anti-sexual harassment training for all janitors, and employers that don’t comply by 2019 can’t do business in California. And because the industry is filled with many black market and fly-by-night companies, it also creates a registry of janitorial companies so bad actors can be held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker rights and anti-sexual violence organizations that pushed for the bill also have come together to start the Ya Basta Coalition. The group is working on creating more effective anti-sexual harassment training for all low-income workers. Some serve on a government advisory committee to implement the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They trained themselves in self-defense.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642112 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Janitors learn how to fend off attackers on the job at a self-defense class.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors learn how to fend off attackers on the job at a self-defense class. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning last month, nearly a dozen female janitors wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Ya basta” learned to punch, kick and jab an attacker by practicing on imposing plastic dummies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had gathered at the union headquarters in Los Angeles to learn how to defend themselves against aggressors as they worked on the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through live demonstrations and role play, they were taught how to be fully aware of their environment, how to exude confidence and how to state loudly and unequivocally that they do not want to be propositioned or touched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the first self-defense class for janitors hosted by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. But it was just the beginning. Lilia Garcia-Brower, the organization’s executive director, said she plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. The hope is that each cleaner will teach these techniques to a co-worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“We're essentially looking to create an army of female janitors who are committed to go out and talk to as many female janitors as possible so that they too can understand that they have the power within them to defend themselves and society is wrong. And as we go one by one, one worker at a time, we're going to get there to make that shift.”\u003ccite>Lilia Garcia-Brower, executive director of The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Garcia-Brower said the class isn’t just about throwing a punch – it’s also about teaching women that they have the power to expect a safe workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Rape on the Night Shift\" is an investigative collaboration between KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-160x13.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-240x19.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-375x29.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-520x41.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11642102/how-a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse","authors":["byline_news_11642102"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19948","news_21804","news_18239","news_4435","news_1527","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11642105","label":"source_news_11642102"},"news_11642062":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11642062","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11642062","score":null,"sort":[1516096892000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape","title":"Nation’s Largest Janitorial Company Faces New Allegations of Rape","publishDate":1516096892,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>In the #MeToo era, KQED is revisiting its groundbreaking “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/a>” series from 2015. Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, KQED uncovered extreme sexual abuses of janitorial workers that went unpunished by their employers.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America’s largest janitorial company, ABM Industries Inc., faces new allegations that it ignores sexual abuse in the workplace, years after it agreed in numerous legal settlements to change how it handles such cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three times since 2000, the federal government had \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sued the company\u003c/a> for failing to prevent sexual violence in the workplace. Each time, it agreed to make improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in a separate settlement in 2015, ABM \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/largest-janitorial-company-agrees-to-reform-response-to-sexual-abuse/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promised to change\u003c/a> how it responded to on‐the‐job rape allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three current cases out of Fresno, California, highlight a persistent phenomenon: Female janitors say that their supervisors exploit their power – and the isolation of the night shift – to violently harass them, while their employer looks the other way. Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and its reporting partners – UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, KQED, FRONTLINE and Univision – \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first documented\u003c/a> this abuse in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New documents show the company still has problems with sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10573046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-800x619.jpeg\" alt=\"night shift 2\" width=\"800\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-800x619.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-400x310.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-1440x1115.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-1180x914.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-960x743.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the #MeToo movement, KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> are revisiting our groundbreaking series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Join the conversation\u003c/strong> with reporters Sasha Khokha and Bernice Yeung about \"Rape on the Night Shift\" on Tuesday morning on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2018/01/15/rape-on-the-night-shift-team-revisits-abuse-against-women-janitors/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a> (9:30 a.m. PST) and on Thursday morning on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal/?ref=br_rs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Live\u003c/a> from Reveal (10:30 a.m. PST).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Watch an \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/?utm_source=Partner\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">updated documentary\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> from PBS FRONTLINE about the ongoing battle to prevent sexual abuse of janitors in the workplace. It will air on KQED 9 at 10 p.m. PST.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Listen to new reporting\u003c/strong> on The California Report Magazine starting on Friday, Jan. 19 at 4:30 p.m. PST (\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tune-in/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">check your local listings\u003c/a>).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hear \"Rape on the Night Shift\"\u003c/strong> with new updates, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal\u003c/a> on Saturday, Jan. 20 (check your local listings).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to recent reports to the local police department and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, three female ABM janitors say that over the course of more than a decade, they were sexually harassed while cleaning Citibank branches, the offices of Telemundo and medical clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current Fresno cases are an illustration of how, in the midst of the #MeToo movement and new efforts to include low‐wage workers in the national conversation about sexual harassment, sexually abused janitors say they continue to face real barriers – such as the threat of deportation or losing the financial lifeline of their jobs – when they try to report the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM is a publicly traded company based in New York City that employs about 70,000 janitors across the country. The company declined to be interviewed about the allegations made by the three women because of ongoing legal claims. But in a statement, ABM said it takes all allegations of sexual harassment seriously, and responded quickly to the complaints by the Fresno janitors. The accused men no longer work for ABM, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the harassment the women report happened while the company was under a court‐ordered agreement with the federal government to improve how it handles sexual harassment. That arrangement came as a result of a lawsuit in the Central Valley of California, which included allegations from Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a pervasive problem that is so big and has been around for so long, there is really no way to say that the company was not aware of the possibility – indeed the probability – that there were women facing this kind of abuse,” said Jennifer Reisch, an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, who is one of the lawyers representing the three women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three Fresno janitors complained to the company about the behavior in spring 2017, and ABM placed them on paid leave while it looked into the matter. But the company has refused to share the outcome of its investigation with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A form letter that the company sent to each woman in August says, “Understandably, for reasons of confidentiality, all of the actions ABM has taken as a result of that investigation cannot be shared,” although the company assured the workers that the accused supervisors would no longer be assigned to the buildings where they worked. The company did not tell the women whether it believed the harassment occurred or whether the men had been punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the company responded to the janitors’ sexual harassment claims drove them to file complaints with the EEOC last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"A 2016 report by UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, the combination of isolation, vulnerable workers, poorly trained managers and layers of subcontracting contribute to a “perfect storm” that allows harassment to flourish.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-1180x911.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-960x742.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-375x290.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-520x402.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2016 report by UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, the combination of isolation, vulnerable workers, poorly trained managers and layers of subcontracting contribute to a “perfect storm” that allows harassment to flourish. \u003ccite>(Matt Rota)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one case, a janitor named Mercedes said that for nearly 15 years, she had reported to work at dusk to clean empty buildings in California’s Central Valley for ABM. While she was on the clock, her direct supervisor regularly watched pornography from his truck, masturbated in front of her while he propositioned her and made obscene comments about her body, according to documents she submitted to the EEOC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Mercedes is a pseudonym because Reveal does not use the names of people reporting sexual violence without their permission. The name of the supervisor was blacked out in the documents provided by the women’s attorneys.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Mercedes said she felt pressured to stay quiet about the harassment because her boss threatened to fire her or get her deported. She also told the government that she had not reported the harassment to the company sooner because ABM had never clearly explained how she could make a complaint. This echoes what other janitors have said in previous cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercedes finally went to the police in 2014 after she says her supervisor tried to rape her in his car under the pretense of taking her to a new work site. But even then, she told the police she was too fearful of deportation and losing her job to move forward with the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, Mercedes went back to the police. She says that several months before, the supervisor had cornered her in a cramped supply closet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The suspect then pulled out his penis from his pants and told the victim to give him oral sex,” the police report states. “The victim stated no and turned away from him. The suspect then grabbed the victim’s hand and tried to get her to touch his penis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercedes says she was able to push him away, but he continued to harass her. Just days before she filed the report, he “thrusted his groin area toward the rear of the victim’s buttocks,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same supervisor was accused of assaulting another female ABM janitor based in Fresno. In a June 2017 police report, she says that when she was cleaning the kitchen of a Citibank branch years before, the supervisor had grabbed her and raped her with his finger by placing “a foot between her legs so she couldn’t close them and forced his left hand down her pants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accusations extended beyond a single supervisor. A third janitor said that another male foreman tried to kiss her and take off her pants. He also made lewd comments and showed her pictures on his cellphone of what he described as his erect penis, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-800x793.jpg\" alt=\"While recent cases involving high‐profile women have led to firings and resignations, the claims of many low‐wage workers have not resulted in real accountability.\" width=\"800\" height=\"793\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642074\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-800x793.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-1020x1012.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-1180x1170.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-960x952.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-240x238.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-375x372.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-520x516.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While recent cases involving high‐profile women have led to firings and resignations, the claims of many low‐wage workers have not resulted in real accountability. \u003ccite>(Matt Rota)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the women reported the attacks to the company last spring, ABM hired an outside investigator to look into their rape and attempted rape claims, which the company is required to do as part of the 2015 settlement of a San Francisco sexual harassment case also handled by attorney Reisch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While recent cases involving high‐profile women have led to firings and resignations, the claims of many low‐wage workers have not resulted in real accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisch said this is the case with ABM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company's response was so outrageous, was so appalling, it was something close to infuriating,” Reisch said. “The company, like many companies, still, as its first instinct – and second one – is to close ranks and to try to protect the status quo, and that has to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM said that it disagreed with how it has been portrayed in our reporting because it doesn’t reflect ABM’s “full commitment to providing a safe workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ABM is proud of our industry‐leading anti‐harassment program,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642096\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1020x971.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1180x1123.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-960x914.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-520x495.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Revisit our original reporting from 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Part I: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Working Alone, at Night, Janitors Risk Sexual Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part II: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/whats-government-doing-prevent-janitors-getting-raped-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">What’s the Government Doing to Prevent Janitors From Getting Raped?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part III: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Former Janitors Go Undercover to Clean Up Abuses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\">In-depth report by Reveal\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/bajo-la-oscuridad-trabajadoras-de-limpieza-enfrentan-violaciones-y-acoso/\" target=\"_blank\">Reportaje detallado por Reveal en espanol\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003ch2>Watch the Documentary\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://video.pbs.org/video/2365515054/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontline's \"Rape on the Night Shift\"\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://noticias.univision.com/article/2375918/2015-06-21/estados-unidos/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno-jornada-nocturna\" target=\"_blank\">Univision: en español\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And in settling the lawsuits that have been filed against it, the company does not admit wrongdoing. It has also won sexual harassment cases, including a trial involving another Fresno cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Huerta, president of the janitors union in California, said ABM has improved the way it handles sexual harassment among its members. In the past, he said, the company tended to take the supervisor’s side when it received a sexual harassment complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also signed a labor contract last spring that added provisions for addressing sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ABM has become better allies in the sense of understanding that they have a role to play in this, that deniability is no longer acceptable,” Huerta said. “Do I think they’re 100 percent cured? I don’t think so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company had been uniquely troubled by sexual harassment complaints. It is among a rare group of American companies that have been sued multiple times by the federal government for sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In lawsuits, janitors have complained that the company failed to take their reports of sexual harassment seriously. In the San Francisco case that resulted in the 2015 settlement, a supervisor dissuaded a janitor who said she had been raped by her manager from calling the police. In another case filed by the federal government, the company did not talk to a church volunteer who said he saw a supervisor try to attack a janitor. That supervisor turned out to be a registered sex offender and other janitors say he went on to attack them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions of night‐shift janitorial work foster sexual violence. According to a 2016 report by UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, the combination of isolation, vulnerable workers, poorly trained managers and layers of subcontracting contribute to a “perfect storm” that allows harassment to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisch said that given these conditions, ABM could be more proactive in trying to protect its workers by doing more targeted and direct outreach about sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A company like ABM, that knows that its workforce is comprised of thousands of women who are working at night, alone, who have vulnerabilities as the result of the conditions in which they work – they need to take extra steps,” she said. “They can't just wait until the next rape happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Rape on the Night Shift\" is an investigative collaboration between KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"63\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642070\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-160x13.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-240x19.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-375x29.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-520x41.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"ABM Industries Inc. has a history of being sued for failing to stop sexual abuse on the job.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1516127165,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":2029},"headData":{"title":"Nation’s Largest Janitorial Company Faces New Allegations of Rape | KQED","description":"ABM Industries Inc. has a history of being sued for failing to stop sexual abuse on the job.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11642062 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11642062","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/16/nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape/","disqusTitle":"Nation’s Largest Janitorial Company Faces New Allegations of Rape","source":"Reveal","sourceUrl":"https://www.revealnews.org/","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=”https://www.revealnews.org/author/bernice-yeung/”>Bernice Yeung\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11642062/nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>In the #MeToo era, KQED is revisiting its groundbreaking “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/a>” series from 2015. Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, KQED uncovered extreme sexual abuses of janitorial workers that went unpunished by their employers.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America’s largest janitorial company, ABM Industries Inc., faces new allegations that it ignores sexual abuse in the workplace, years after it agreed in numerous legal settlements to change how it handles such cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three times since 2000, the federal government had \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sued the company\u003c/a> for failing to prevent sexual violence in the workplace. Each time, it agreed to make improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in a separate settlement in 2015, ABM \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/largest-janitorial-company-agrees-to-reform-response-to-sexual-abuse/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promised to change\u003c/a> how it responded to on‐the‐job rape allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three current cases out of Fresno, California, highlight a persistent phenomenon: Female janitors say that their supervisors exploit their power – and the isolation of the night shift – to violently harass them, while their employer looks the other way. Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and its reporting partners – UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, KQED, FRONTLINE and Univision – \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first documented\u003c/a> this abuse in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New documents show the company still has problems with sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10573046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-800x619.jpeg\" alt=\"night shift 2\" width=\"800\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-800x619.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-400x310.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-1440x1115.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-1180x914.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/night-shift-2-960x743.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the #MeToo movement, KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> are revisiting our groundbreaking series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Join the conversation\u003c/strong> with reporters Sasha Khokha and Bernice Yeung about \"Rape on the Night Shift\" on Tuesday morning on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2018/01/15/rape-on-the-night-shift-team-revisits-abuse-against-women-janitors/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a> (9:30 a.m. PST) and on Thursday morning on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal/?ref=br_rs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Live\u003c/a> from Reveal (10:30 a.m. PST).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Watch an \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/?utm_source=Partner\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">updated documentary\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> from PBS FRONTLINE about the ongoing battle to prevent sexual abuse of janitors in the workplace. It will air on KQED 9 at 10 p.m. PST.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Listen to new reporting\u003c/strong> on The California Report Magazine starting on Friday, Jan. 19 at 4:30 p.m. PST (\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tune-in/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">check your local listings\u003c/a>).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hear \"Rape on the Night Shift\"\u003c/strong> with new updates, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal\u003c/a> on Saturday, Jan. 20 (check your local listings).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to recent reports to the local police department and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, three female ABM janitors say that over the course of more than a decade, they were sexually harassed while cleaning Citibank branches, the offices of Telemundo and medical clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current Fresno cases are an illustration of how, in the midst of the #MeToo movement and new efforts to include low‐wage workers in the national conversation about sexual harassment, sexually abused janitors say they continue to face real barriers – such as the threat of deportation or losing the financial lifeline of their jobs – when they try to report the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM is a publicly traded company based in New York City that employs about 70,000 janitors across the country. The company declined to be interviewed about the allegations made by the three women because of ongoing legal claims. But in a statement, ABM said it takes all allegations of sexual harassment seriously, and responded quickly to the complaints by the Fresno janitors. The accused men no longer work for ABM, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the harassment the women report happened while the company was under a court‐ordered agreement with the federal government to improve how it handles sexual harassment. That arrangement came as a result of a lawsuit in the Central Valley of California, which included allegations from Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a pervasive problem that is so big and has been around for so long, there is really no way to say that the company was not aware of the possibility – indeed the probability – that there were women facing this kind of abuse,” said Jennifer Reisch, an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, who is one of the lawyers representing the three women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three Fresno janitors complained to the company about the behavior in spring 2017, and ABM placed them on paid leave while it looked into the matter. But the company has refused to share the outcome of its investigation with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A form letter that the company sent to each woman in August says, “Understandably, for reasons of confidentiality, all of the actions ABM has taken as a result of that investigation cannot be shared,” although the company assured the workers that the accused supervisors would no longer be assigned to the buildings where they worked. The company did not tell the women whether it believed the harassment occurred or whether the men had been punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the company responded to the janitors’ sexual harassment claims drove them to file complaints with the EEOC last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"A 2016 report by UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, the combination of isolation, vulnerable workers, poorly trained managers and layers of subcontracting contribute to a “perfect storm” that allows harassment to flourish.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-1180x911.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-960x742.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-375x290.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28879_night-shift-1-1-qut-520x402.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2016 report by UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, the combination of isolation, vulnerable workers, poorly trained managers and layers of subcontracting contribute to a “perfect storm” that allows harassment to flourish. \u003ccite>(Matt Rota)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one case, a janitor named Mercedes said that for nearly 15 years, she had reported to work at dusk to clean empty buildings in California’s Central Valley for ABM. While she was on the clock, her direct supervisor regularly watched pornography from his truck, masturbated in front of her while he propositioned her and made obscene comments about her body, according to documents she submitted to the EEOC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Mercedes is a pseudonym because Reveal does not use the names of people reporting sexual violence without their permission. The name of the supervisor was blacked out in the documents provided by the women’s attorneys.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Mercedes said she felt pressured to stay quiet about the harassment because her boss threatened to fire her or get her deported. She also told the government that she had not reported the harassment to the company sooner because ABM had never clearly explained how she could make a complaint. This echoes what other janitors have said in previous cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercedes finally went to the police in 2014 after she says her supervisor tried to rape her in his car under the pretense of taking her to a new work site. But even then, she told the police she was too fearful of deportation and losing her job to move forward with the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, Mercedes went back to the police. She says that several months before, the supervisor had cornered her in a cramped supply closet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The suspect then pulled out his penis from his pants and told the victim to give him oral sex,” the police report states. “The victim stated no and turned away from him. The suspect then grabbed the victim’s hand and tried to get her to touch his penis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercedes says she was able to push him away, but he continued to harass her. Just days before she filed the report, he “thrusted his groin area toward the rear of the victim’s buttocks,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same supervisor was accused of assaulting another female ABM janitor based in Fresno. In a June 2017 police report, she says that when she was cleaning the kitchen of a Citibank branch years before, the supervisor had grabbed her and raped her with his finger by placing “a foot between her legs so she couldn’t close them and forced his left hand down her pants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accusations extended beyond a single supervisor. A third janitor said that another male foreman tried to kiss her and take off her pants. He also made lewd comments and showed her pictures on his cellphone of what he described as his erect penis, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-800x793.jpg\" alt=\"While recent cases involving high‐profile women have led to firings and resignations, the claims of many low‐wage workers have not resulted in real accountability.\" width=\"800\" height=\"793\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642074\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-800x793.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-1020x1012.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-1180x1170.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-960x952.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-240x238.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-375x372.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-520x516.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28880_night-shift-4-1-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While recent cases involving high‐profile women have led to firings and resignations, the claims of many low‐wage workers have not resulted in real accountability. \u003ccite>(Matt Rota)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the women reported the attacks to the company last spring, ABM hired an outside investigator to look into their rape and attempted rape claims, which the company is required to do as part of the 2015 settlement of a San Francisco sexual harassment case also handled by attorney Reisch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While recent cases involving high‐profile women have led to firings and resignations, the claims of many low‐wage workers have not resulted in real accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisch said this is the case with ABM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company's response was so outrageous, was so appalling, it was something close to infuriating,” Reisch said. “The company, like many companies, still, as its first instinct – and second one – is to close ranks and to try to protect the status quo, and that has to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM said that it disagreed with how it has been portrayed in our reporting because it doesn’t reflect ABM’s “full commitment to providing a safe workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ABM is proud of our industry‐leading anti‐harassment program,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642096\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1020x971.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1180x1123.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-960x914.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-520x495.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Revisit our original reporting from 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Part I: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Working Alone, at Night, Janitors Risk Sexual Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part II: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/whats-government-doing-prevent-janitors-getting-raped-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">What’s the Government Doing to Prevent Janitors From Getting Raped?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part III: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Former Janitors Go Undercover to Clean Up Abuses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\">In-depth report by Reveal\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/bajo-la-oscuridad-trabajadoras-de-limpieza-enfrentan-violaciones-y-acoso/\" target=\"_blank\">Reportaje detallado por Reveal en espanol\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003ch2>Watch the Documentary\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://video.pbs.org/video/2365515054/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontline's \"Rape on the Night Shift\"\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://noticias.univision.com/article/2375918/2015-06-21/estados-unidos/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno-jornada-nocturna\" target=\"_blank\">Univision: en español\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And in settling the lawsuits that have been filed against it, the company does not admit wrongdoing. It has also won sexual harassment cases, including a trial involving another Fresno cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Huerta, president of the janitors union in California, said ABM has improved the way it handles sexual harassment among its members. In the past, he said, the company tended to take the supervisor’s side when it received a sexual harassment complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also signed a labor contract last spring that added provisions for addressing sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ABM has become better allies in the sense of understanding that they have a role to play in this, that deniability is no longer acceptable,” Huerta said. “Do I think they’re 100 percent cured? I don’t think so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company had been uniquely troubled by sexual harassment complaints. It is among a rare group of American companies that have been sued multiple times by the federal government for sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In lawsuits, janitors have complained that the company failed to take their reports of sexual harassment seriously. In the San Francisco case that resulted in the 2015 settlement, a supervisor dissuaded a janitor who said she had been raped by her manager from calling the police. In another case filed by the federal government, the company did not talk to a church volunteer who said he saw a supervisor try to attack a janitor. That supervisor turned out to be a registered sex offender and other janitors say he went on to attack them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions of night‐shift janitorial work foster sexual violence. According to a 2016 report by UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, the combination of isolation, vulnerable workers, poorly trained managers and layers of subcontracting contribute to a “perfect storm” that allows harassment to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisch said that given these conditions, ABM could be more proactive in trying to protect its workers by doing more targeted and direct outreach about sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A company like ABM, that knows that its workforce is comprised of thousands of women who are working at night, alone, who have vulnerabilities as the result of the conditions in which they work – they need to take extra steps,” she said. “They can't just wait until the next rape happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Rape on the Night Shift\" is an investigative collaboration between KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"63\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642070\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-160x13.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-240x19.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-375x29.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-520x41.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11642062/nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape","authors":["byline_news_11642062"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_21804","news_18239","news_1527","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11642065","label":"source_news_11642062"},"news_11090957":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11090957","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11090957","score":null,"sort":[1474360234000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rape-on-the-night-shift-investigation-helps-change-california-law","title":"'Rape on the Night Shift' Investigation Helps Change California Law","publishDate":1474360234,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>I got emotional when I watched \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/seiuusww/status/776587653831467009\">this video\u003c/a> shot from outside the state Capitol. A group of women janitors were cheering as they ended their four-day hunger strike. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing red bandannas and T-shirts proclaiming “Ya Basta” -- enough is enough -- they celebrated as they learned that Gov. Jerry Brown had just signed a bill to protect janitors like them from sexual violence and abuse on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those women was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Georgina Hernandez\u003c/a>, a single mom from Los Angeles. I met her two years ago. Back then, she told me that when she worked the night shift cleaning a hotel lobby, she was repeatedly sexually harassed, and eventually raped by her supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/seiuusww/status/776587653831467009\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you need the job, you become a victim by not having the courage to say 'no,'\" Hernandez told me in Spanish. \"And if you say ‘no,’ you are going to lose the job. I didn’t have anyone to tell, someone to trust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez had reluctantly agreed to talk to us as part of an investigation we called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\">Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/a>. We spent 18 months working on the project with immigrant women janitors. We followed them as they cleaned buildings. We met their families and spent time in their homes. We built up trust so they would tell us some of their deepest secrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I hit him with my broom,” said\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\"> Maria Magaña\u003c/a>, a janitor who told us how she was raped in the conference room of a bank in Bakersfield. “[my supervisor] said, ‘Maria, why are you so mad? What am I doing wrong? It’s just a caress. I’m just being affectionate.’ I told him, ‘You get any closer and I’ll hit you with the handle right now. I’m going to spray this cleaner in your eyes.'\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283268889\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to these women together with my colleagues Bernice Yeung and Daffodil Altan from \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, and Andrés Cediel and Lowell Bergman from the\u003ca href=\"http://investigativereportingprogram.com/\"> Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>. We produced a series of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">radio stories\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/\">documentary film that aired on PBS and Univision.\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women who eventually agreed to talk with us said they wanted other janitors to know that they aren’t alone, that they don’t have to endure assault or unwanted touching from their supervisors as they push their cleaning carts through dark buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their message reached countless other janitors, inspiring them to speak up for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent screening of the Night Shift documentary in Oakland, a group of women janitors rushed toward me to tell their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was both moved and surprised. It took us almost a year and a half to find women willing to share the horrible things that happened to them. And now I found myself surrounded by a semi-circle of women, jockeying for position to talk into my microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\">The Full 'Rape on the Night Shift' Series\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ROTNS.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of things happen at night on the job,” said Anabel Aguirre, who has worked as a janitor for 16 years and says she was raped at work. “We are the people who come in at dawn to clean the buildings, but there’s no one to tell us how to protect ourselves. Now we know that we can help each other, tell our stories, bring these things to life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre’s daughter, Yamilex Rustrian, took the stage at the screening. “Knowing that she’s an immigrant woman, because she’s undocumented, they think this is right,” said Rustrian. “There is no excuse for rape, ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of these janitors have decided to become \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">promotoras\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, trainers and advocates for other janitors. Teaming up with rape crisis groups and women’s organizations, they’re teaching women about their rights and helping women connect to therapists.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sept. 12, 14 \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">promotoras \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">began a hunger strike on the lawn of the state Capitol. The hunger strike ended Sept. 15, when Gov. Jerry Brown signed \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1978\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assembly Bill No. 1978\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill was authored by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a80/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of San Diego. She says she was inspired by our reporting, which revealed a loophole in the laws protecting workers. Abusive working conditions, including sexual violence, often go undetected at businesses that subcontract to other companies. Many cleaning companies are fly-by-night operations that subcontract, so abuse on the night shift can fly under the radar.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez says that janitors “have worked far too hard and too long for their families, to go unseen and unnoticed.” She says the purpose of the bill is “to shine a light on this industry, and make sure that we hold building owners responsible for abuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The law doesn’t address bigger changes in the janitorial industry like having cleaners work in pairs, so they’re never alone -- or training more women to become supervisors. 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I didn’t have anyone to tell, someone to trust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez had reluctantly agreed to talk to us as part of an investigation we called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\">Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/a>. We spent 18 months working on the project with immigrant women janitors. We followed them as they cleaned buildings. We met their families and spent time in their homes. 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Now we know that we can help each other, tell our stories, bring these things to life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre’s daughter, Yamilex Rustrian, took the stage at the screening. “Knowing that she’s an immigrant woman, because she’s undocumented, they think this is right,” said Rustrian. “There is no excuse for rape, ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of these janitors have decided to become \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">promotoras\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, trainers and advocates for other janitors. 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