janitor

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The long-incarcerated Janitor claims to have crucial information about the new murder, but he’ll only share it with his old nemeses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

L.A. has seen consequential labor actions before — the Justice for Janitor campaigns of the 1990s, the supermarket strikes of the early 2000s, the last WGA one — that helped realign city politics.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

The Hudson River Museum show runs somewhat chronologically; one of the earliest pieces in the exhibition is Palmer Hayden’s “The Janitor Who Paints,” from around 1930.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

Now rank-and-file members are pushing for the California governor, Gavin Newsom, to sign assembly bill 547, the Janitor Survivor Empowerment Act, into law after it passed the state assembly and senate earlier this month.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2019

By the same statute an annual payment was ordered of £20 to the Janitor, in lieu of fees hitherto taken for showing the Library or Picture Gallery to Members of the University.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn