Religious Leaders Speak Out

On Wednesday August 22nd religious leaders from the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish traditions came together to express their support for the struggle of janitors to win a better life for themselves and their families. Economic justice and workers’ rights is a moral issue. Rev. Gregory G. Groover, Sr. pastor of Charles St. A.M.E. Church made a personal connection when he spoke about his father who was a janitor for 40 years. He also talked about how pained he was to hear about janitors presently struggling to make ends meet. Rabbi Jonah Pesner after hearing the testimony of a 615 member, who leaves here house at 6am in the morning while her children are sleeping and returns home at 10:30p after they have gone to bed stated, “may G-d have mercy on us, may G-d have mercy on our community.”