‘No One Mentions the People Who Clean It Up’: What It’s Like to Clean Professionally During the COVID-19 Outbreak
“[Management is] super cheap. In restaurants, do waitresses carry their own [supplies] to clean the tables?” he says, adding that he’s not getting hazard pay. Under his union contract, he makes about $26 per hour.
K.T., a janitor for a San Francisco office building who asked to be identified by initials only, says her fears have shifted from medical to financial as the outbreak wears on. But now that the office building in which K.T. works sits empty, she says she’s worried about layoffs or reduced schedules. She has a second job as a plumber and electrician, but she depends on the $21.80 an hour she makes under her 40-hour-per-week union janitorial contract.
“There are people who really do appreciate [us] and know the janitors are in a big risk,” K.T. says. “But there are a lot of people who…don’t even look at the bottom, and they see us at the bottom.”
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