Word: janitor
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...attacked in "smash-and-run" incidents while passing the Nickerson Gardens housing project that authorities walled off the adjacent highway with a spiked metal fence. Fire Captain Tom Crowley says arson has become a spectator sport, with punks torching buildings "just to watch us work." Bobby Spears, 31, a janitor and father of four, knows who robbed him recently but will not press charges out of fear for his family's safety...
...dozen years ago when union leaders complained that public employee salaries for jobs traditionally held by women were unfairly low when compared with salaries for male-dominated jobs of roughly equal value. But what jobs are of equal value? Is a secretary, for example, worth as much as a janitor? More? And who is to say? Despite such formidable hurdles, state and union negotiators last week reached an agreement to provide 35,000 Washington public workers, most of them women holding clerical and nursing jobs, with pay raises collectively totaling $482 million between...
...plaintiffs in a 1982 lawsuit that led to last week's deal, the settlement "proved that the jobs traditionally held by women are worth as much as those traditionally held by men." Her $16,800 annual pay will go up by about $1,200, equal to what a janitor makes. Although such states as Minnesota and Wisconsin have also accept ed the comparable-worth concept, more than 20 others are still fighting lawsuits growing out of the controversial idea. LOBBIES Falwell Rechristens His Majority...
...Harvard hired people for 15 hours a week, knowing that 16 gave workers health insurance,” said Jeffrey Moura, a janitor at GSE who has joined the union fight to gain health benefits for himself and the other janitors...
...freak out collectively because a student threw up into a bag to signify his violent disgust for an organization that has committed torture. But we don’t have a problem puking our guts out after a night of drinking in Loker Commons, assuming some FMO janitor will mop it up. Sometimes when that happens we’re even glad to expunge the calories we consumed at John Harvard’s, worried that they’ll go to our thighs. Which type of puking is more selfish and reprehensible...