More than 200 workers protested Tuesday outside the Board of Supervisors’ meeting against a county proposal to award $11.2 million in hospital janitorial contracts to a company that union leaders claim would cut staff by as much as 30 percent.

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Leslie Reichert ’s mission is to teach and encourage the art of homekeeping and green cleaning so people can enjoy a good life. “I always love to see the faces of people when I show them what a cut lemon and some salt can really do,” she says.

Reichert, a green cleaning coach and owner of the Back Door, a vacuum and homekeeping store in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, runs the website ShopGreenCleaning and wrote The Joy of Green Cleaning, an essential resource full of tips and recipes for cleaning your home without chemicals. She turned to natural cleaning methods after running a large residential cleaning service—and seeing firsthand what the harsh chemicals in cleaning solutions can do to people’s health. Reichert sees three good reasons to green your cleaning:

FALMOUTH - Classes at a Cape Code elementary have been cancelled after authorities found the body of a custodian.

Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe announced Wednesday that Cornelius Murphy was found dead in the library of North Falmouth Elementary. The body was discovered Wednesday morning by another custodian.

Officials believe the 42-year-old East Falmouth resident, who had a history of medical issues, died of natural causes.

Source: Boston Herald

The University of Colorado (CU) in the US is blaming "defective" toilet paper for expensive plumbing problems – including overflowing toilets in 27 academic buildings on their Boulder campus – that janitorial workers had to deal at the end of the spring semester in 2009.

In a lawsuit the CU Board of Regents filed last week in Boulder County District Court against Waxie Enterprises Inc and Royal Paper Converting Inc, officials said they had to call on plumbing contractors and use augers to clear sewer lines in response to the troublesome toilet paper.

More at source: Global Times

W.W. Grainger Inc.'s (GWW) daily sales jumped 14% from a year earlier in April, as higher volume and prices helped the company continue its growth streak.

The supplier of industrial goods ranging from lighting to janitorial products has seen its results improve of late as global economic activity continues to rebound. Last month it reported its first-quarter earnings rose 59% on higher sales and margins. The company may be considered a bellwether of the U.S. economy because of the breadth of its offering

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‘At this time of the year we see a noticeable rise in the number of admissions related to accidental swallowing of household cleaners. Luckily in most cases the swift response of parents means that the consequences are not fatal. But the outcomes are still serious and cause great distress to the child and to their parents.

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LINCOLNTON - A woman who cleans homes for a living has been charged with stealing jewelry from the homes she'd been hired to clean.

Vickie Gail Jackson, 57, of Fran Avenue in Lincolnton was charged with felony larceny and felony possession of stolen goods by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.

More at source: WBTV.com

A student has been arrested after another threat of a school shooting put Concord Junior High School on edge.

The student who was arrested is now in the Elkhart County Juvenile Detention Center. The Superintendent of Concord Community Schools updated parents with an automated phone call at 6 a.m. Tuesday morning.

According to our reporting partners at the Elkhart Truth, another shooting threat was found in a bathroom Monday afternoon at the Junior High.

Captain Jim Bradberry said that janitors found the note threatening a school shooting to take place this morning.

Bradberry said the school had alerted parents through automated phone calls and that police were preparing to take preventive actions similar to last Friday's shooting threat.

Bradberry said police are investigating whether the two threats are connected.

Last Friday, extra police were brought in to the school as a precaution.

A 16-year-old girl was also arrested last Friday for making a bomb threat at Concord High School.

More at source: WNDU.com

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Broward taxpayers overpaid almost $1 million to clean the airport over the 2008-09 budget years, and the county still pays more than other Florida airport authorities for janitorial work, the county auditor says.

The new audit raises an alarm about a $63 million cleaning contract the county has with Sunshine Cleaning Systems Inc. Its 280 workers wash windows, clean toilets, vacuum carpets, and clean parking garages and sidewalks at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Full article at source: Sun Sentinel

A 1.46m-tall Bronx woman claims a New York City job counsellor got her fired from her gig as a Parks Department janitor in Queens because he thought she was too short to do the job.

Sandra Petersen, 51, claims she never had a problem at work until she asked counsellor Louis Marchi about switching her assignment, the New York Post said.

"I could do the job," Ms Petersen told the Post. "The managers really liked me and know I worked hard."