This support workforce accounts for 37% of the total health service workforce and includes roles such as porters, cleaners and administrators.
Those poor cleaners have barely had time to mop Kim's waters off the toilet floor and there's another baby on the way.
The protest, during which students marched around central London to the sound of chanting and a heavy drum beat, comes as higher education staff and cleaners prepare for a series of strikes beginning tomorrow.
Tampons and pads make up 10% of things flushed down toilets, a fact that makes wastewater workers despair, as well as beach cleaners: in a 2010 Beachwatch survey, for every kilometre of beach, 22.5 towels, panty liners or backing strips were found, and 8.9 tampon applicators.
Shrink it if you want to but then explain to the builder, restaurant owner, hotel manager and cleaners who benefit from the income they create why they have to take a cut in their living standards.
Hit-and-run attacks on effective policies, witnessed with the fuss over EU rules on vacuum cleaners and hairdryers, are accompanied by a drumbeat of doom and gloom designed to sap our will to act.
At precisely that moment, and with implausibly good timing, two window cleaners slowly dropped into view on the outside of the building.
The necessary principles are invoked every time you take your clothes to the cleaners.
I love photographing the few people who are working and getting the city ready for the day – butchers, bakers, street cleaners… And the people who aren't working, are playing.
"Self-employed" window cleaners knock on doors fruitlessly.
A controversial piece for the New Statesman described the persistence of class differences between women from generation to generation: the feminists who employed cleaners inherited their own mothers' privileges, while their working-class cleaners carried on the servile labour of their mothers.
