SEIU Local 1 Window Washers to Air Spanish-Language TV Ad Slamming Susana Mendoza for Selling Them Out During Summer Strike

SEIU Local 1 is running an ad on Chicago Spanish-language television detailing how mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza sold out our city's brave window washers,...

Local 1 window washers are letting voters know that Susana Mendoza cannot be trusted to stand with Chicago’s working families

CHICAGO
 - Hardworking Chicago window washers are once again in the spotlight after NBC Chicago and Telemundo Chicago ran in-depth stories last night on the dangerous work they do every single day. Now, in the closing weeks of the mayoral election, SEIU Local 1 is running an ad on Spanish-language television detailing how mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza sold out our city’s brave window washers, their families and their communities when they went on strike in July of 2018.

"When we were on strike for a better future, Susana Mendoza sold us out,” said SEIU Local 1 window washer Francisco Guzman. “Voters need to know that Mendoza sides with her business owner donors over hardworking Chicago families and our communities."

Instead of standing with our city’s brave window washers, who put their lives on the line every day to support their families, Mendoza sided with her buddy and major campaign donor Neal Zucker, CEO of window washing company Corporate Cleaning Services and employer of window washers. Zucker is a major Mendoza campaign donor who has contributed more than $30,000 to her political fund since 2014, including $10,000 immediately following the strike and $3,000 on Christmas Eve.  CBS Chicago rated the claims in the ad, which ran for weeks on digital platforms, to be true.

The ad represents a significant five-figure buy on Univision Chicago and Telemundo Chicago and will run from Thursday until the runoff election on February 26. In the closing weeks of the mayor’s race, Local 1 window washers are letting voters know that Susana Mendoza cannot be trusted to stand with Chicago’s working families.

WATCH THE AD HERE

WATCH THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DIGITAL AD
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