Two custodians at a northern New Jersey elementary school have been suspended for allegedly binding and gagging four young boys in a school bathroom last week and then taking pictures of them. But don't be alarmedundefinedaccording to the Long Branch Schools Superintendent, the workers were just "horsing around.

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Night janitorial duties at the borough's junior/senior high school will be outsourced to a private firm, resulting in the layoff of two employees, Superintendent Albert Pecora said.

The move, which is on a trial basis, will save the district $55,000, Pecora said.

Pecora intends to use the savings to bolster district instruction, which he said has taken a hit due to budget cuts in recent years.

Currently, elementary school teachers with no Spanish background are teaching Spanish and an upcoming fourth-grade class undefined if not split undefined will result in a class size well over 30 students, Pecora said.

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ABM Industries Inc.'s (ABM) fiscal first-quarter profit rose 27% as revenue from the acquisition of the former Linc Group masked relatively flat core earnings.

The latest profit increase builds on improved results seen earlier in the year. ABM, which provides janitorial, engineering, parking and security services for thousands of commercial, institutional and retail facilities in the U.S. and Canada, has mostly grown its bottom line, though its fourth-quarter profit slipped amid higher labor costs.

The latest results benefited from what was formerly called the Linc Group, which added to ABM's business in the growing energy sector.

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Chicago's janitors union contracts are up for renewal next month, and while the negotiations with building owners are private, union members are making sure their demands are not – announcing them on megaphones, banners and poster boards instead.

In what looked like a sea of yellow, thousands from SEIU Local 1 gathered on Sunday outside Chase Bank on 10 S. Dearborn St. in the first of several planned rallies. They were holding flags that read “Good jobs, Strong Communities” and “We are the 99%.”

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Canadians were justifiably outraged when Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar, threatened its London, Ont., workers with a 50 per cent pay cut and then left Canada in search of cheaper labour in the U.S.

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- L.A. LIVE -- the $2.5 billion sports and entertainment district in downtown Los Angeles is located within a 4 million-square foot, 27-acre area that is home to STAPLES Center, Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE (7,100-seat venue), Club Nokia (2,300-capacity live music venue), a 54-story, 1001-room hotel tower featuring the JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE and The Ritz-Carlton hotels, 224 luxury Ritz-Carlton Residences, Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14 theaters, restaurants, office space, broadcast facilities for ESPN and more. Within LA LIVE, ABM will provide cleaning services for the district's exterior grounds, STAPLES Center, Nokia Theater L.A. LIVE, Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE and AEG's corporate headquarters space...

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Jeff Davidson, the author of “Breathing Space,” a manual on keeping house, said that early March is the best time for spring cleaning. “You should do it when you really don’t want to go outside anyway,” he said. “It should be called pre-spring cleaning.”

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Angella Luyk, owner of Midnight Janitorial in Rochester, said the price increases are causing the cost of supplies to go up, expenses to go up and profit margins to fall. “Anything that gets trucked into Rochester is going to be raised, which means I make less money because I can’t charge clients more than what I’ve been charging them, a certain price for the last year,” she said.

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From furniture to entire rooms, Kavanagh found photographs taken inside the Su Jung Health Sauna on Buford Highway in Nocross, two days after five people were killed there in an apparent murder-suicide.

The Facebook page belongs to Scott Bogulski, the owner of OnScene Services, the company the family hired to clean up after the tragedy.

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FORT WORTH -- A former North Crowley Ninth Grade Campus employee has been arrested in connection with the assault of a school janitor over Facebook postings that he made about the woman.

Voncia Deshae Johnson, 33, was arrested last week and charged Thursday with assault causing bodily injury stemming from the alleged after-hours attack at the campus of Jason Starr, 23, on Dec. 5.

A "directive to apprehend" -- similar to a juvenile arrest warrant -- has also been issued for the woman's teenage son, but he had not been arrested as of late Monday afternoon, said Sharron Neal, a police spokeswoman. He is not being identified because he is a juvenile.

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