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  • According to the Arkansas Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates9 collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 17,130 people employed under the occupational title Janitors and Cleaners,

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  • "And while I am on a roll - the Classified Workers (aka Janitors) leave the rooms NASTY!!

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  • Today's Wall Street Journal reports on the case in Dow Chemical Is Ordered to Pay In "Janitors" Case, by Robert Guy Matthews.

    January 2006 2006

  • Today's Wall Street Journal reports on the case in Dow Chemical Is Ordered to Pay In "Janitors" Case, by Robert Guy Matthews.

    WSJ on 6th Circuit's Dow Chemical COLI Decision 2006

  • Janitors have been fired because they cannot read an after-hours note with special clean-up instructions.

    Widespread Illiteracy: Ending Our Literacy Crisis « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • You see, I wrote an amazing book called The Dead Janitors Club a little while back; I know it was amazing because one reviewer called me "a real life character out of a Chuck Palahniuk novel" and another reviewer said I was "the new Mark Twain."

    Jeff Klima: Lindsay Lohan Nearly Killed Me: Twain 2.0 2010

  • You see, I wrote an amazing book called The Dead Janitors Club a little while back; I know it was amazing because one reviewer called me "a real life character out of a Chuck Palahniuk novel" and another reviewer said I was "the new Mark Twain."

    Jeff Klima: Lindsay Lohan Nearly Killed Me: Twain 2.0 Jeff Klima 2010

  • "Well, it started out in the 1980s -- we would organize a building [where janitors worked] ... and find out that the management firm that owned the building was really owned by a pension fund, which was owned by an investment firm, which was ultimately owned by a bank," says Stephen Lerner, the brainchild of SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign and now director of SEIU's Banking and Finance Campaign.

    Mike Elk: Too Big Not to Organize: SEIU-International Coalition Try to Unionize the Banks 2010

  • Its feisty "Justice for Janitors" campaigns, in-your-face struggles against hospitals and nursing homes, organizing of immigrant workers, grassroots electoral outreach, and sophisticated media strategies led many to see SEIU as the model for labor union growth.

    SEIU at the Crossroads 2010

  • Its feisty "Justice for Janitors" campaigns, in-your-face struggles against hospitals and nursing homes, organizing of immigrant workers, grassroots electoral outreach, and sophisticated media strategies led many to see SEIU as the model for labor union growth.

    Randy Shaw: SEIU at the Crossroads 2010

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