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  • 22 Sep 2016 11:20 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

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    According to the claim, the plaintiff was caused personal injury on Oct. 6, 2015, when she was working at 2251 Lakeshore Building 3. The suit states that the premises had been cleaned by the defendant's employee, and that as the plaintiff stepped out of the elevator, she was caused to slip and fall on the wet floor. She alleges she injured her neck and re-injured her back in the fall.

    The defendant is accused of negligence through failing to place signage to warn of the danger.

    More at source: Louisiana Record

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  • 19 Sep 2016 11:35 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    Legislation based on a national investigative report detailing cases involving the rape of women working late-night janitorial shifts was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown of California.


    The new law, Assembly Bill 1978, requires janitors and their supervisors to complete sexual harassment training beginning in 2019.

    More at source: LA Times

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  • 15 Sep 2016 1:15 PM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

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    From lawmakers to janitors, there is an all out effort to stop the spread of mumps in Northwest Arkansas.
    Wednesday the State Health Department confirming 150 reported case of the mumps spanning across five school districts.

    Parents have been concerned since the outbreak started two weeks ago about the safety of sending their kids to school, but districts are doing their part to make sure your kids aren't bring home more than homework.
        
    "Water fountains are cleaned. Just everything," Custodian Wesley Hill said.

    Mumps is a highly contagious virus.

    "Can be spread through sneezing and coughing,"  Melissa Thomas, Director of Nursing Fayetteville Public Schools said.

    So, stopping the spread of germs has become a high priority.

    More at source: NWA Hompepage

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  • 12 Sep 2016 8:11 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    A state court jury could decide as early as Tuesday whether an aggressive organizing campaign by the Service Employees International Union went too far when it accused a Houston cleaning company of systematic labor law violations, a verdict that could affect the tactics unions employ to sign up members and negotiate contracts.

    Francisca Reyes, left, and Austroberta Rodriguez march in a rally for janitors in June. Photo: Gary Fountain, For The Chronicle / Copyright 2016 Gary Fountain

    The case, involving Professional Janitorial Service and the SEIU's efforts to organize the company's workers, pits what the union says are its constitutional rights to free speech against the company's claim that the union's unfounded charges that it broke the law drove clients away and cost it millions of dollars. The four-week trial, which ended Thursday with closing arguments, put the union's hardball tactics under a microscope and forced the SEIU for the first time to defend those methods in front of a jury.

    More at source: Houston Chronicle

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  • 08 Sep 2016 8:40 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    He and three friends each plopped down a whopping $750 per person to start a cleaning company. Brent, the only partner in Houston, had a lot to learn. He hired five employees, who — along with his business partners — showed him how to make businesses shine.

    GettyImages-133137357 SEIU“I’d get a new building and they’d come help me. I learned how to strip and wax the floors over the phone,” he said. “I thought I ruined the floor the first time I did. When you strip the wax off a vinyl floor, it changes color. Then when you put the wax back, the color comes back. But I didn’t know that.”

    Their business grew to being the sixth largest janitorial contractor in Houston. But in 2006 they ran across a union group, Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

    More at source:  BrietBart.com

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  • 07 Sep 2016 9:24 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    HOUSTON — A Houston woman is suing janitorial services, alleging their negligence caused her to fall and sustain injuries.

    Joyce Logan, a Target employee filed a lawsuit Aug. 9 in the Harris County District Court against Prestige Maintenance USA Ltd. and Prestige Maintenance USA, Janitorial Supply LLC, alleging negligence in failing to exercise ordinary care in maintaining its premises in a safe condition.


    According to the complaint, Logan entered 8500 South Main in Houston for the purpose of her employment with Target Corporation. The suit says she was seriously injured when she slipped and fell due to mop water left unattended by defendant's employees.

    The lawsuit states Logan sustained injuries, pain and suffering, loss of earnings and necessary medical care and expenses. The plaintiff alleges the defendants' employees negligently permitted the floor to remain in dangerous condition and failed to warn Logan of such danger.

    More at source: Sextex Record

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  • 06 Sep 2016 7:43 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    More than 20 janitorial workers held a one-day strike on Thursday in protest of what they say are unfair pay and unsafe working conditions on Arizona State University's Tempe and downtown Phoenix campuses.

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    The workers are employed by Olympus, a cleaning company specializing in the maintenance of academic institutions that has had a contract with ASU since 2009.

    Martin Hernandez, who works with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and helped organize the protest, said Olympus employees face unsafe conditions because of a lack of transportation between buildings on the sprawling Tempe campus.

    More at source: AZ Central

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  • 31 Aug 2016 1:41 PM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    Scrubbing the kitchen or bathroom clean is not most people's idea of fun.

    But aside from being an unwelcome chore, it could also be wreaking havoc with your health, a study has found.

    Chemicals used in sprays and detergents which get our worktops and basins shining have also been linked to lung damage.

    Chemicals found in household cleaning products are damaging lung function by 14 per cent more than average over 20 years, a Norwegian study has found

    Chemicals found in household cleaning products are damaging lung function by 14 per cent more than average over 20 years, a Norwegian study has found.

    A Norwegian study found people who use household products are at greater risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - which includes the conditions chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

    More at source: Daily UK

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  • 25 Aug 2016 11:26 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    Constance C. Luo, an immigration organizer with Texas Organizing Project, protest with janitors and members of Service Employees International Union Texas (SEIUTX) protest unfair treatment to janitors and commemorate "Justice for Janitors Day" during protest in downtown Houston. (For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain, June 15, 2016) Photo: Gary Fountain, For The Chronicle / Copyright 2016 Gary Fountain

    In 2003, the Service Employees International Union brought its Justice for Janitors organizing campaign to Houston, eventually signing up 5,300 workers employed by janitorial service companies and scoring the first labor organizing victory in Houston in 25 years.

    It was the first toe-hold in the South for the nation's second largest union, but came only after a bitter fight that included demonstrations, boycotts, blocked traffic, and pressured pension fund investors.

    More at source: Houston Chronicle

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  • 22 Aug 2016 9:10 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

    The janitors who clean the T and their supporters rally today against job cuts they say could leave the MBTA a mess. (SEIU)

    The janitors who clean the T and their supporters rally today against job cuts they say could leave the MBTA a mess. (SEIU)

    BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority plans to cut one-third of the workforce that cleans the "T" stations in the Boston area as part of a plan to balance its budget. But janitors and their supporters will be out in force on Monday to stand against the cutbacks.

    Cambridge Vice Mayor Marc McGovern said he'll be among those at the protest. He said the MBTA is taking a wrongheaded approach by killing jobs when the move would have such a small impact on the agency's budget problems.

    "You know, actually I think it's outrageous that the MBTA is trying to balance their budget on the backs of their lowest-paid workers,” McGovern said.

    The MBTA said it is confident that cleanliness will not be affected by the plan to cut 90 janitorial positions on September 1st. But the pending cuts will impact MBTA workers' ability to pay their bills and provide for their children, McGovern said.


    More at source: Public News Service


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