Stephen Lerner is a fellow at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and is one of the architects of the Justice for Janitors Campaign.
Jono Shaffer is a Los Angeles based organizer with SEIU who worked on and helped lead the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles.

Labor
25 Years Later: Lessons From the Organizers of Justice for Janitors
Stephen Lerner and Jono Shaffer
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