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Garbage collectors have historically set the bar for messy jobs. But laundry workers, particularly in hospitals, deal with a more perilous kind of waste. When bio-hazardous materials aren?t disposed of properly, they sometimes find their way into laundry rooms. "They have blood, needles, body parts, bits of fingers, everything in those bags," says a worker quoted in the Brennan Center report, "Unregulated Work in the Global City," referrring to the bags of hospital linens that he is required to wash...
Portions of the north side of Western Avenue and parts of Soldier Field Avenue have also been designated as worker parking as an additional means of dealing with the anticipated increase in the demand for parking spots...
...They ask for shoes and we give them shirts,” a development worker said. “They ask for shirts and we give them shoes...
...police haven’t returned our calls and we haven’t received any additional information about the worker,” Zebny said. “I believe the whole thing was a fabrication, but nevertheless, we took it very seriously and made sure our environment was safe...
...refused to allow his head to be clean-shaven, the mid-June incident that precipitated the beating. She explains: "He didn't mind having it cut short but a totally shaved head is a sign of a criminal. 'I am not a criminal, I am a Chinese worker,' he told them." She said that some six or seven other convicts then jumped him and beat him. He was pushed to the ground, his hands manacled behind his back, and held down while his head was shaved. When Yuan made her monthly visit on June 19, he still had bruises...