PARAMUS – A private company has offered to take over janitorial work in the borough's public buildings for $42,000 a year — less than half what borough officials estimated it would cost to outsource the work and a fraction of the $350,000 it now pays in-house staff, borough officials said Wednesday.

Borough Council Budget Chairman Alan Brundage said he was extremely pleased with the offer from Rutherford-based Maverick Building Services, the lowest of seven bids the borough received. But he said the borough would postpone securing a contract until after May 17, the deadline the council gave for employees to present their own budget-cutting proposals that would not require layoffs or demotions.

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ROSWELL, Ga., May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimberly-Clark Professional* today announced a significant increase in commitment to its core business by further strengthening its Cleaning & Hygiene organization to support the janitorial supply channel. This initiative includes a series of personnel moves, an expanded sales team and the addition of a third region to support distributors.

Effective immediately, the following leaders have been named to new positions: Ward Johnson, Vice President, Kimberly-Clark Professional North American Sales – Cleaning & Hygiene; Rick Herbert, Director of Sales, Cleaning & Hygiene – East; Mike Leemann, Director of Sales, Cleaning & Hygiene – Central; and Robert Ochoa, Director of Sales, Cleaning & Hygiene – West.

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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Hundreds of county workers protested in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday over proposed cuts to janitorial jobs at county hospitals.

It's the first of several protests against a board of supervisors plan to close the budget gap.

Dozens of janitors working for the county and workers supporting them turn out at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration on Temple Street before dawn with drums, songs and picket signs.

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I couldn't help but snap a photo of this product with my cell phone after I saw it near the checkout stand at a Home Depot. 

The packaging for this all-purpose home cleaner looks identical to the packaging for fruit juice. If I was a parent I don't think I'd want that in my home in case a child reached for it thinking it was juice. Or imagine throwing a party and someone pouring it in the punch bowl thinking it was fruit punch.

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The first day of spring has come and gone. To get the cleaning season started right, we looked for the best advice on cleaning the busiest — and maybe dirtiest — room in the house: the kitchen.

For a list of what we should clean, how and when, we asked a bunch of germ experts.

The biggest surprise? People with pets are six times more likely to get

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Three hundred million people suffer from asthma worldwide, and its costs to our kids, families, and society are growing. Today, on World Asthma Day the Global Initiative for Asthma is raising awareness about asthma by launching a campaign to reduce asthma-related hospitalizations by 50 percent in five years. But we also need to reduce exposure to conditions that aggravate asthma and trigger asthma attacks.

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Let’s face it; people are networking online during their workday. And some of those people broadcast work-related gripes or post inappropriate pictures. Search engines index that content, creating a trail of digital dirt that can soil a company’s image for years.

Because the lines between personal and professional sharing are blurred, it’s imperative to develop social media guidelines so everyone who works at your company understands how to represent themselves and the company online.

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State University is firing 191 custodial workers as the university transitions to contract cleaning of its facilities.An ASU official said that as part of its budget reduction commitment, facilities management will be transitioning to contract cleaning of 100 percent of ASU's buildings at the Tempe and West campuses.The move to 100 percent contract cleaning will result in a reduction in force affecting 191 employees -- 181 on the Tempe campus and 10 on the West campus; custodial services on the other campuses are already handled by janitorial services business partners.

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Daimer Industries, Inc., a leader in sanitizing systems, announces it has increased the cleaning capabilities of two steam vacuum cleaner machines in its line of KleenJet® Supreme 3000 equipment. The systems, the 3000CVP and 3000CVGP with gum removal, have been engineered to clean a range of hard surfaces and incorporate industrial-grade vacuum systems.

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(Reuters) - Ecolab Inc's (ECL.N) quarterly profit slightly exceeded Wall Street expectations as sales rose in the United States, the Asia Pacific region and Latin America.

The cleaning services company also raised the lower end of its 2011 earnings forecast range.

Its first-quarter profit amounted to $93.6 million, or 40 cents per share, compared with $95.5 million, or 40 cents per share, a year earlier.

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