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Los Angeles Times photographer Mike Sergieff snapped this picture of a janitors rally in 1990, giving it the caption, "Union demonstrators who marched around the downtown high rise buildings where they rallied for better contracts, end with skit of…

A summons from a mock trial of the lawyers for Bradford Building Services.

Street theater at a 1992 demonstration features "Mopman", a superhero janitor and recurring character at protests. Part of worker mobilization and demonstration served to attract the attention of contractors and other corporate and political figures.…

In cartoons and street theater, the superhero janitor Mopman was a frequent part of the Justice for Janitors campaign during the early 1990s.

Santa-who turned out to be Jono Shaffer, an organizer for Local 399 of the Service Employees International Union-said he had heard that Century Towers' janitors were being exposed to health hazards when they used strong chemicals to clean bathrooms…