The University of Windsor is contracting out janitorial duties at six of its buildings, says the union that represents the hourly employees who do the work.

The change takes effect next Monday, CUPE Local 1001 says.

John Coleman, the school's director of public affairs and communications told CBC he would respond to a request for a statement later Wednesday.

The union says the move affects work at Dillon Hall, Clark Residence, Alumni Hall, as well as the Toldo GLIER and ELIP buildings.

Jeff Martin, president of CUPE Local 1001, says he is "pissed off to no end."

He said the university's decision is the continuation of a troubling trend.

"It's been going on for years, and we've been talking about it for years. It's just nothing seems to happen. It just stays the same, and we lose jobs, lose jobs, lose jobs. You get mad. Your hands are kind of tied," he said.

Martin says no current union members will lose their jobs with this move, but he says 12 of his members will be redeployed and some positions will eventually be lost through attrition.

There are currently 68 employees in housekeeping at the university, according to Martin.

"They're going to completely get rid of us. That's just the way it is. They're going to get rid of us," Martin said.

More at source: CBC

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PRNewswire/ -- US demand to grow 2.2% annually through 2019

US demand for janitorial equipment and supplies is forecast to grow 2.2 percent per year through 2019 to $7.1 billion, continuing the recovery that began in the latter part of the 2009-2014 period. Significant pent-up demand in automated floor cleaning equipment will fortify advances. After initially falling in 2008 and 2009, sales of most types of automated floor cleaning equipment remained below pre-recession highs as of 2014, but will again approach or exceed those levels by 2019.

Gains will be spurred by accelerating economic growth, which will increase foot traffic and a need for additional cleaning in buildings, as well as factors such as a rising number of business establishments and gains in nonresidential floor space that boost the potential market for janitorial products. Increased demand for nonessential cleaning activity and related products will also promote advances. Heightened interest in sustainable cleaning practices will buoy demand for higher value products that decrease or eliminate water or chemical consumption.

Sales will be further fueled by growing interest in replacing older, noisy equipment with quieter, more discreet products appropriate for noise-sensitive environments. In addition, concerns about the risk of cross-contamination and employee injury will drive sales of products with advanced features and improved ergonomic design. More rapid gains will be restrained by market maturity in manual cleaning products and bags and containers, as well as by competition from lower-cost imports.

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SOUTH GLENS FALLS | Performance Industrial, formerly called Americlean, has purchased Albany-based Key Flooring Systems, previously known as Key Equipment.

South Glens Falls-based Performance Industrial has frequently used Key Flooring as a sub-contractor in the past.

A purchase price was not disclosed. Performance Industrial will operate the Albany store as a satellite office, according to a prepared statement.

Performance Industrial will continue to offer the same range of customized epoxy flooring options Key Flooring provided for warehouses and manufacturing spaces, commercial kitchens, laboratories and clean rooms, supermarkets, healthcare facilities, locker rooms and other projects. The Albany location will enable Performance Industrial to service its industrial cleaning and painting customers in Albany and the surrounding counties more efficiently.

Source: PostStar

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New flu recommendations for the upcoming season are out and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is suggesting everyone gets vaccinated by October.

It’ll be another five months before flu season peaks in Wisconsin, and another two before we usually start seeing the first case. But pediatricians are getting their vaccines ready as early as August 12, and asking you to act now.

Dr. John Edwards, an Appleton pediatrician, says, “If we can get vaccines going in August and September, it helps maximize the protection the patients will get.”

CDC recommendations released this week encourage everyone, especially kids and seniors, to get vaccinated by October.

“The strains that are in the vaccine will be the same all season,” says Dr. Edwards. “They were the same last year, too, so that wouldn’t change throughout the course of the season.”

He says it wall also last all season.

But last year, the vaccine was only about 20 percent effective, while it’s usually around 40 percent effective.

This year, scientists altered the vaccine once again to try and better prevent strains they’re predicting, based on what they’ve seen around the world.

Mary Dorn, at Outagamie County Public Health says, “But we have to remember that flu vaccine isn’t always to prevent us from disease, it’s to prevent how ill we get, prevent hospitalizations and to prevent death.”

The CDC includes other changes this year:

– Two to eight year olds are recommended either the shot or nasal spray vaccine.

– There is a new 4-strain injection available.

– There is a needle-less injection option for adults

Doctors say whatever way you choose, get the vaccine before flu season sneaks up on you.

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MILFORD, Ohio - A grieving mother wanted to get her son's belongings back after his suicide. But the company cleaning out his apartment threw his stuff away without her permission, she says.

Now, Jessica Dixon hasn’t just lost her son. With his computer gone, she says she has lost her connection to his heart and soul.

"He wrote songs. He wrote poetry. He was starting to write a book. It was insight into my son's heart,"  she said.

She's not about to let that drop, either.

Dixon said her son, 21-year-old Bruce Lyons, ended his life with a gun in his apartment at 1100 Cook Crossing Drive.

"He was discovered on Friday morning, Aug.  7,  around 10 a.m.," she said.

She expected Bruce's personal belongings would be returned. But when she asked, Calloway Cleaning and Restoration told her "everything's been disposed of," she said.

 "I'll never know the full impact of what Calloway stole from us on that computer," Dixon said.

She made contact with Konrad Kircher, Calloway's attorney. She told him he was being recorded.

"Certain property had to be disposed of because of the health risks and the contamination," Kircher told her during a taped phone conversation.

More at source:  WCPO

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Janitors at the Boston offices of WeWork Companies Inc., a New York-based co-working space company with a $10 billion valuation, are staging a rally Monday afternoon to promote "fair pay."

The event, called "Rally for Good Cleaning Jobs at WeWork," is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. outside the WeWork South Station location at 745 Atlantic Ave., and is being organized by 32BJ, a property service worker's union with 18,000 members in Massachusetts.

Janitors who clean WeWork's offices in Boston are being paid about $10 an hour with "few, if any, meaningful benefits," according to a release from 32BJ. They're advocating for similar office-space cleaning jobs that get paid $17 an hour.

From their release:

WeWork, the hip co-working start-up, valued at $10 billion by investors, likes to brand itself as 'a space, community, and services you need to make a life, not just a living.' Apparently, in Boston this doesn’t apply to the contracted cleaners who pick up after the darling of the sharing economy who will be rallying in the Financial District on Monday to tell WeWork to use a responsible cleaning contractor that pays fair wages that meet the industry standard.

More at source: Biz Journals

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A former employee at a San Diego County specialty food company said his supervisor ordered him to dump chemicals in public drain.

Marcos Estes, an ex-janitor at Fresh Creative Foods in Vista, told NBC 7 Investigates he shot video of the July 15 incident on his cellphone.

His boss allegedly ordered him and his co-workers to dump the partial contents of 75 chemical containers in a drain at the company’s warehouse on Birch Street. Estes said he had no training in chemicals or waste disposal.

“At the time, I didn't realize how dangerous the chemicals were," Estes told NBC 7 Investigates.

He said those chemicals burned his skin, damaged his lungs and harmed a co-worker who helped him get rid of the substances. Estes started recording the dumping when he realized the chemicals could injure people and were a danger to the environment.

"This stuff got inside the gloves, inside my boots, and burned my hands, burned my feet and my knee, my back and my shoulder,” he said.

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