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Eight members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) hand-delivered letters to administrators Friday, asking Harvard to cut its ties with Boston’s largest janitorial contractor until it provides better wages and health benefits to employees...
...same parents who are intent on creating common areas are just as determined to wall themselves off from their issue in master-bedroom suites the size of apartments. "I have to have this," a client recently told Los Angeles--area contractor Bill Simone. "l'll get a night job if I have to, but my bedroom has to be huge." Don't crowd Mom and Dad, kids, they're boomers. And guess what: the size of your bedrooms is being squeezed so they can have walk-in closets (one each), a bathroom with his-and-hers vanities and a shower...
...demands are completely reasonable. Many of Boston’s janitors live hand-to-mouth, working two or three part time jobs to support themselves and their families. A part time job can pay as little as $39 per shift. Those jobs are often for the same cleaning contractor or for more than one contractor covered by the Boston master contract. Such a lifestyle is hardly part time; between several jobs, janitors often work more hours than a full time job but receive none of the benefits of full time work. Their schedules leave them little or no time...
...janitors now on strike are risking their jobs and livelihoods. Unicco, Boston’s largest cleaning contractor, is already employing replacement workers. The desperation of those willing to cross a picket line for a paycheck speaks to the bravery of those who will strike. Living in conditions that can lead one to break a strike, it speaks volumes that so many janitors still decided to walk out. Additionally, that Unicco and other companies can find replacement workers underscores how little job security the striking janitors have. Despite all this, the number of janitors on strike is growing, as more...
...could look right through the Jordans—there was nothing left but the floors and the girders holding them up,” Lewis wroten in an e-mail. “It really is an astonishing achievement, as anyone who has even tried to get a contractor to put in a kitchen in a three-month period could attest...