janitor
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Another oversight battle concerns the rights of detainees who work at a facility, perhaps as a janitor, for $1 per day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The company hires people for roles like janitor, maintenance worker and in other trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
The son of parents who fled Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s, Tiafoe used to sleep on the floor at a plush Maryland tennis centre where his father was a janitor.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
“I’ve already tried. Mr. Sims told me they already have a full-time janitor and me.”
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
It would mean more than 60,000 essential district workers — teachers, counselors, nurses, bus drivers, janitors and cafeteria workers — would walk off the job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
It would mean more than 60,000 essential district workers — teachers, counselors, nurses, bus drivers, janitors and cafeteria workers — would walk off the job, crippling school operations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Today I estimate that more than 30,000 Microsoft employees, from secretaries to janitors, have become millionaires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
ICE agents I’ve spoken with say they have arrested or detained office workers, janitors, dishwashers, gardeners, and day laborers and raided Home Depots.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025
They were closing the dining hall by the time we arrived, and the janitors had already started to mop the floor.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
