Workers at DPI Group Deserve Respect

Dignity at DPI is a campaign of DPI workers organizing a union with SEIU Local 49. We are hundreds of janitors, security workers, and community members, united in the belief that all workers—regardless of disability, race, gender, immigration status, or age—deserve respect at work.

As DPI workers, we are organizing a union with SEIU 49, Oregon’s union of property service workers, to ensure that we have dignity in our jobs at DPI. As community members, fellow janitors and security officers, and supporters, we will stand side-by-side with DPI workers in their fight.

A recent statement by DPI affiliate Northwest Success, Inc. questioned whether its employees had the “capacity” to make choices for themselves. Are DePaul Industries and other DPI Group, Inc. affiliates living up to their charitable mission? If so, how much does the DPI Group respect its employees with disabilities?

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Workers with disabilities have had fewer opportunities and benefits working for Northwest Success, Inc.
Workers with disabilities have had fewer opportunities and benefits working for Northwest Success, Inc.
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City of Portland Blames Northwest Success, Inc. for Hazardous Conditions at Public Restrooms Downtown 
City of Portland Blames Northwest Success, Inc. for Hazardous Conditions at Public Restrooms Downtown 

Willamette Week reports: “City officials are blaming ‘inadequate service’ for the squalid state of Portland’s 14 downtown public restrooms.” Northwest Success, Inc. “was unable to meet expectations.”

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Sex, Drugs, and Unlocked Doors: Northwest Success Inc. and DPI Security in the News
Sex, Drugs, and Unlocked Doors: Northwest Success Inc. and DPI Security in the News

In two recent articles, Willamette Week reported that Multnomah County had temporarily shut down its Behavioral Health Resource Center (BHRC) in downtown Portland, Oregon, due to allegations that employees of DPI Security and Northwest Success Inc., the Center’s security and janitorial service providers, and a third contractor, had used cannabis and cocaine at the center, had questionable sexual relationships with coworkers, and had blackmailed each other by threatening to reveal each other’s behavior…

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Dignity at DPI

Dignity at DPI is a campaign of DPI workers organizing a union wit SEIU Local 49, Oregon’s union of property service workers. We are hundreds of janitors, security workers, and community members, united in the belief that all workers—regardless of disability, race, gender, immigration status, or age—deserve respect at work. 

As DPI workers, we are organizing a union with SEIU 49, Oregon’s union of property service workers, to ensure that we have dignity in our jobs at DPI. As community members, fellow janitors and security officers, and supporters, we will stand side by side DPI workers in their fight.