Houston

Big unions play hardball, and most of the time it works. Not this week in Texas, however, where a jury awarded $5.3 million in damages to a local cleaning firm targeted by the Service Employees International Union. Although disparagement claims are difficult to prove, the owners of Professional Janitorial Services of Houston showed that SEIU Local 5 had tried to destroy them with a campaign of misinformation about how they treated workers. The firm’s attorney, John Zavitsanos, says that this is the first time a jury...