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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On Tuesday, March 6, at 8:30 a.m. (EST), ABM will host a live webcast of remarks by president and chief executive officer Henrik Slipsager and executive vice president and chief financial officer James Lusk.

A supplemental presentation will accompany the webcast and will be accessible through the Investor Relations portion of ABM's website by clicking on "Events and Presentations."

The webcast will be accessible at: http://investor.abm.com/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=110307

An Elkton, Md. cleaning woman who police say stole from a Bear residence and pawned several pieces of jewelry has been charged with felony theft.

Better Maid Cleaning Service had assigned Ammie Robinson, 37, to the victim’s residence in January, where police say that she stole an engagement ring.

On Jan. 23, New Castle County Police were called to the residence for a reported theft.

The victim told police that on Jan. 4 she noticed her engagement ring was missing from her dresser drawer and that earlier in the day, employees of her cleaning service, Better Maid Cleaning Service, had been in her home.

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Police and fire officials investigated a suspicious package found at Mary Eyre Elementary School in southeast Salem shortly after a suspicious man was arrested near the school grounds Wednesday afternoon.

A student at Mary Eyre found a sealed plastic soda bottle full of liquid on school grounds about an hour and a half after Jerry Simpson, 27, was taken into custody by Salem Police. Janitorial staff at the school discarded the bottle, but discovered later in the day that the contents of the bottle were reacting, causing it to swell.

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