Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco鈥檚 major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers.
Some 475 janitors have been told that unless they can show legal immigration status, they will lose their jobs in the near future.
ABM has been a union company for decades, and many of the workers have been there for years. Olga Miranda, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 87, said: 鈥淭hey鈥檝e been working in the buildings downtown for 15, 20, some as many as 27 years.