Word: janitorism
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...We’ve gotten respect from supervisors. We have better benefits, like health care plans and better wages. We have more sick days and vacation days,” said Victoria Iscayau, who attended the party, and has been working as a janitor at the Law School for about 20 months...
...cleaning companies’ cost-cutting strategy exacts a terrible human toll. One female janitor, screaming into a megaphone before a march at the Park St. T stop, described the situation she and her family face. Her son is often sick and needs a lot of medicine to stay healthy. But if she buys his medicine, she can’t buy food. So the question every week is whether the son will be healthy and the family can’t eat, or whether he’ll be sick and there’ll be food...
Once during his childhood, Wahed said a Muslim janitor taught him to say in Arabic “I am a Muslim, and I believe in one God” in case he ran into belligerent Muslim mobs...
...seen over the last few years. They are the same guilty middle class suburbanites who hunger for a social cause as grand as the movements their parents joined in college, even if no such cause currently exists. They are the superheroes of non-issues who can smell a distressed janitor or a non-fair-trade cup of coffee from a mile away and can instantly mount an impassioned protest without even thinking...
Closer to home, Harvard janitor Daniel M. Mejia said he marched in the rally to support his fellow workers, though his situation has improved...