# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/ChxULQoBD-2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19115827-thekansascitystar-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-08-27T17:00:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

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Sandy Hinson, 77, loves her job as a janitor at Crown Center. 
 
Each morning she wakes up at 3 a.m., does a little exercise and drinks a single cup of coffee before driving downtown to start her shift. The job has never paid the most money, but Hinson said she always wakes up excited to go to work. 
 
“It’s not just a job,” Hinson said. “I love what I do, and I love meeting people and interacting with people and sharing life stories with the tenants.”
 
Hinson is one of 900 Kansas City janitors that successfully won better wages, paid sick leave and benefits in their new three-year union contract as members of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Local 1. 
 
“We are excited, because we have been waiting so long for this — for more benefits and better pay,” Hinson said. She has been a member of the union the entire 25 years she’s worked at Crown Center and talked with The Star back in 2016 about the push for higher wages.
 
Janitors working at places like the IRS Campus, Crown Center, City Hall and more will see an 18% increase in wages, bumping wages up to $15 per hour for full time day-shift workers. Minimum wage in Missouri is $11.15 an hour.
 
Read more about the new union contract and other benefits workers fought for at the link in our bio. ✏️ Kynala Phillips
 
#KansasCity #KCJanitors #SEIULocal1 #Union #UnionContract #CrownCenter

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crowncenter, seiulocal1, unioncontract, kcjanitors, union, kansascity

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