COLUMBUS, OHIO
Some question bank's role in county project
Franklin County has yet to dig a hole for its new courthouse, but foreclosure is already a concern.
Union and community leaders asked commissioners yesterday to use their weight to force JPMorgan Chase, chosen last month to help the county borrow money for its new Hall of Justice, to change its practices.
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Meet Workers from Columbus
[Columbus] By anyone’s standards Sahro Ahmed has had a difficult life. Born in the East African nation of Somalia, Sahro saw her country descend into chaos and civil war beginning in the early 1990s.
Dale Carter
[Columbus] For 25 years in Michigan, Dale was a custodian in the Rochester Community Schools—and a member of a labor union. Dale earned a living wage and had access to quality health care. Now, after a long job search, Dale works as a janitor for Aetna Building Maintenance cleaning Huntington Bank. He longs for the protection of a union contract.
[Columbus] For the last nine years janitor Mumina Ibrahim has worked hard cleaning JP Morgan Chase’s sprawling Polaris Corporate Center in Columbus, Ohio.
[Columbus] Angela works for Cleaning Service Industries (CSI) at the 1 Nationwide Plaza building in downtown Columbus. Her eight-hour workday is a race against the clock. “I spend 4 hours collecting trash and then there’s dusting and vacuuming,” she says. “You have to move your hands and feet. If you don’t run, you don’t finish.”
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