When Hernandez found a job as a cleaner, paying $8.75 an hour, things improved and a sense of hope returned.
Progressives may cheer at raising cleaners' pay and charging hotel customers extra.
Favourable tax laws originally designed to help entrepreneurs get started, mean private equity figures can pay as little as 5% tax while their cleaners pay at least four times that level.
Many janitors are looking with hope to contract negotiations in which Mr. Garcia's union local, which represents 5,700 Silicon Valley janitors, including ones at Cisco, Sun and Hewlett-Packard, is asking for raises that would lift the cleaners' pay to $12.50 an hour after three years, from the current $8.
If the speech were to be about income inequality, one might discusss whether its right for councillors who volunteer for election to get allowances higher than lollipop ladies or school cleaners pay, for example.
Prim had to find someone available to do your laundry, have them spend time and gas driving to your house, pick up your laundry, drive it to the cleaners, pay the cleaners to wash and fold the clothes, pick them up, and deliver them back to your house.
The story boosted the campaign, to the point that Matthew and the group were able to arrange a meeting weeks later with the vice-chancellor and university's head of finance, who claimed to not know the harsh realities of their cleaners' pay.
Earlier, 13 civilian staff, who work at the barracks as cleaners, paid their respects to the dead soldiers.
Come nightfall, the elevators are full of African cleaners, paid next to nothing and treated as nonexistent.
Then the workers stay out of the way, with cleaners paying as much attention as lawmakers do to the bells and clicks from Capitol clocks that signal floor votes and quorum calls.
