Word: janitorism
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...Janitor Frank Morley, one of those arrested Tuesday, said Harvard officials had been watching the protest and had seen that the union “meant business...
...nine arrested were Stephen N. Smith ’02, Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, Ian Simmons ’98-’00, Harvard Law students Jermaine J. Hughes and Minsu D. Longiaru, janitor Frank Morley, SEIU organizer Jill Hurst, Massachusetts AFL-CIO organizer Kathy Cassavant, and Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers organizer Robert Kelly...
Daniel Mejia, a janitor and president of the Harvard Workers’ Center spoke in Spanish—with a student translating his comments into English—about difficulties he and his coworkers face...
...group as praiseworthy as our students are.” Griffin works for both PBH (the building and department of the Faculty of Arts and Science) and PBHA (the non-profit umbrella service organization that includes the Progressive Student Labor Movement). “I’m a janitor for PBH but I identify with PBHA only,” he says. “I even identify with people like the PSLM. I’m a Reagan Republican and I still think they’re great kids. All those kids put their academic lives...
Then came Sept. 11. Rolling black clouds of smoke and dust drifted over to his neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sanders, like people everywhere else, was depressed by the attacks. His problems and successes were dwarfed by their implications. Finding work got even harder. He had a second interview for a janitor job at a Brooklyn YMCA but was finally told he was "too good for the job." "What does that mean? Was I dressed too nicely?" he says. In October he broke down crying in an elevator in Manhattan after being rejected for a messenger...