Scenes from a street theater performance featuring members of the Justice for Janitors. On the left is a man in a lunch adore costume wielding a mop. He uses the mop to push back against a man on the right in a tie, pantomiming that he is protecting the woman in the middle.

Mop Man in street theater

The superhero Mop Man rescues a female janitor from an abusive male employer in this protest performance. The theme of the helpless female dropped out of the union’s public presentations as real women took on active roles in promoting union mobilizations.