Clean Your House For a £1 Missus! + Other Window Cleaning News

Found on the internet recently - any size house cleaned for 1 pound (£1)! Maybe a publicity campaign or just an illegal trying to make money rapidly, never the less, captured here for prosperity. What next? Free window cleaning? Found at "Gumtree" a UK service finder.

Indonesia's non-governmental organization for advocating migrant workers Migrant Care responds positively on the Malaysian government's decision issued on Wednesday, Sept. 2, which approves the weekly one day-off for Indonesian domestic workers working in Malaysia through the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The Malaysian government also allows the domestic workers to keep their passports during their working period. "We appreciate [the decisions], however we expect these policies will be issued in a regulation to be legally abiding," said Migrant Care's executive director Anis Hidayah through a short message to VIVAnews on Thursday, Sept. 3.

Sandra calls for attitude change in Spalding's grotspot fight: Sandra White (pictured) enlists Matthew Kirk and John Hall into her clean-up campaign. A dedicated clean-up campaigner is calling for Spalding people to change their attitudes and "get off their backsides" to rid the town of its litter menace. Passionate pensioner Sandra White (67) spends several hours a day patrolling Pinchbeck Road and the rest of the town in a bid to battle grot spots. She also paid £70 of her own money to hire window cleaner David "Paddy" Dunham to clean the shelters at Spalding Bus Station but she feels other people in the town need to change their outlook and do their bit, too.
She said: "I do think people should get off their behinds – it's common sense but there is an attitude problem. People think that it is not their problem. "I think we have got it all wrong – shops and pubs should be responsible for what they put out. If it's a mess outside a shop then the council should charge them." Sandra shot to media stardom after appearing in the Spalding Guardian, making the national newspapers as a result, but has been disappointed that others have not taken up the clean-up crusade. She said: "Not one person has written in since to support me or even comment, so what's wrong with the public? "We are not getting anywhere and it's darn silly. We should all make an effort to get it right."
Sandra sympathises with South Holland District Council's street cleaning team and thinks it does a good job with limited resources, but says Spalding will struggle in its bid to win gold in the East Midlands in Bloom competition while there are weeds and litter around. She highlighted Winsover Road and Victoria Street car park as particular problems and often challenges people who she spots dropping litter because she feels so strongly about it. She added: "It is a daily battle but I am one step ahead and I do stand my ground with people."

Michael Shields freed after Jack Straw intervenes: Michael Shields left prison after more than four years today with a shy thumbs-up and a wide grin when he heard how his father had learned the longed-for news. The Liverpool window-cleaner was up a ladder when his mobile beeped and local councillor Jo Anderson told him: "We've won. Your son's been pardoned – he can come home this morning." Sitting next to the slight, crewcut Shields, who was jailed for the attempted murder of a barman in Bulgaria, Anderson told a celebration press conference on the city's waterfront: "It was a fantastic moment, but I wasn't really happy 'til I knew he'd got safely to the bottom of the ladder again." Other family members were up ladders of their own within minutes, fixing two huge banners – made four years ago and carefully stored – alongside the Michael Shields is Innocent slogan which has been slung on their terrace house in Wavertree since Shields was jailed in July 2005.

How does one become a 48-year-old rookie lifeguard? Steve Ayers is finishing the summer job he's always dreamed about, San Clemente lifeguard. It was March 28, when the ocean was about 58 degrees and Steve Ayers was one of 60 people standing near Tower 1 on San Clemente State Beach, wearing tiny bathing suits and waiting for the start of a 1,000-yard ocean swim. Ayers' fate in the race would go a long way to determining if he would or wouldn't get a cool job as a San Clemente lifeguard. Ayers, the would-be lifeguard, stood out for several reasons. The other racers were competitive high school or college swimmers. Ayers is, among other things, a commercial window washer. The other racers had time to burn – and train. Ayers had, and has, two kids and a wife and a business. The other racers had… youth. Most were in their late teens or early 20s. Ayers had… more youth; decades more. But, at 48, Ayers had something else going for him too – obsessive drive when it comes to physical fitness.
Ayers isn't in it for the $14.91 an hour. He says, in fact, that these last two weeks of working as a lifeguard are costing him money, keeping him away from his window-washing business. But Ayers says he wouldn't miss it. "Oh, I hope to do this for the rest of my life," he says, adding: "I don't know how long they'll let me."

"ABM`s is a remarkable story," said Slipsager. "From its founding in 1909 when Morris Rosenberg launched a one-man window washing business serving merchants on San Francisco`s Fillmore Street, recording a first-day profit of $3.50; today, 100 years later, ABM employs more than 100,000 people and has annual revenues exceeding $3.6 billion and operations serving thousands of customers across the United States. We are proud of our century-long heritage of service. The men and women of this company strive every day to achieve those same ideals of service to our customers and stakeholders in new ways. With Ted and Maryellen, and on behalf of ABM`s employees and shareholders, let us ring in the next 100 years of ABM`s remarkable story."

Climbing ladder of success: Rising singer and window cleaner – Jana Carine already knows a thing or two about climbing the ladder to success. During the day, the vocalist with Wanaka-based rockers "LATE eightyeight" runs her own window cleaning business. But she’s leaving her bucket and cloth behind when the band hits Dux de Lux on Saturday night. And with a dedicated manager now on board and debut single My Limit to promote, Carine says she hopes to one day give washing windows the flick and become a full-time muso instead. “That’s the dream, but the other side is we’d have to start making money fast,” she says. “It’s a nice idea to play music but to actually go somewhere with it is another story. “But our new manager has been great and has been getting us disciplined. She’s kicking us into gear and hooking us up with some really good gigs.”

FTSE-250 support services business Interserve has been awarded a £1.35m cleaning contract at Colworth Science Park by Goodman Property Services. Under the three-year deal, Interserve will deliver daily cleaning services, including waste management, washroom services and window cleaning. Over 700 scientists, technologists and legal professionals work at Colworth Science Park. Tony Sanders, managing director – commercial at Interserve, said: “We are delighted to be working with Goodman to deliver high quality support services to such impressive buildings. This contract serves testament to the skills and hard work of our staff.”

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Male-Female Occupational Death Gap Is 13 to 1: One other explanation for wage differentials could also be that men tend to work in higher-risk, less safe occupations, with a greater chance of injury or death (e.g. coal mining), at a higher rate than women, and are therefore compensated with higher wages for the greater exposure to risk (e.g. a window washer hanging off the top of the Sears tower washing windows outside 1,000 feet from the ground will make more than a window washer working inside the building.) For certain types of occupational deaths like "Contact with objects and equipment," the male-female gender death gap is even greater (41 to 1), and for "Fires and explosions" the gap is 24 to 1. Occupational deaths are probably concentrated in male-dominated industries like construction (90% male) and manufacturing (70% male), and are probably almost non-existent in female-dominated professions like education and health care (75% female) and government (57% female). Notice also in the chart below that the male-dominated industries have suffered from much higher unemployment rates (19.2% for construction and 12.6% for manufacturing, in May) compared to significantly below-average jobless rates for female-dominated industries (4.9% for education and health services and 3.1% for government).