D.C. area office cleaners fight for better pay and benefits
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/10/dc-area-office-cleaners-fight-for.html
Each weeknight, after the lawyers and financial planners have gone home, Walter Ramirez enters a 1980s-vintage glass office tower in Alexandria to begin his race against the clock.
He and eight other cleaners have four hours to do the same amount of vacuuming, trash collection and other janitorial tasks that just a few years ago took 14 people. He would happily work more hours if he could, he said; as a part-timer, he is paid $9 an hour and has scant health-care benefits.
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Joby Warrick 09 Oct, 2011
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