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quackademicThis is a well designed piece of research. It finds, unsurprisingly, that better cleaning = fewer hospital acquired infections = reduced costs. How astonishing that such an argument needs to be made! If we had more <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/respect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#respect</a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#work</a> done by <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cleaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cleaners</a> the connection between how well resourced they are to do their work, & outcomes for patients & costs to the hospital, would be obvious to all of us. Even hospital administrators.When cleaning is contracted out & budgeted through line items that are separate from those used for clinical services, perverse incentives are created to ‘economise’ on non-clinical functions to improve a notional bottom line. I would guess something like this is at play here. As is so often the case, the funding model is the problem. <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/hospitals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hospitals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cleaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cleaning</a> <a href="https://theconversation.com/better-cleaning-of-hospital-equipment-could-cut-patient-infections-by-one-third-and-save-money-251917" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/better-cleaning-of-hospital-equipment-could-cut-patient-infections-by-one-third-and-save-money-251917</a>

Peter Riley<a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/03/liberated-broom-documentary-cleaners-belgium" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2025/03/liberated-broom-documentary-cleaners-belgium</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workingclasshistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclasshistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Belgium</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cleaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cleaners</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/educationworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#educationworkers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a>

GraadYeahTRATADO DE INVISIBILIDAD de Luciana Kaplan 📽️ An intimate, honest portrait of women who work in cleaning services at different institutions in Mexico City, their problems and the labor abuses they experience, is what Mexican director Luciana Kaplan shows us in her film <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TratadodeInvisibilidad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TratadodeInvisibilidad</a>, a film she presented at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, @FICGUADALAJARA, where she won two awards and in which we were able to talk with her and her cinematographer Gabriel Serra. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=908NpsRIf8o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=908NpsRIf8o</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#movie</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/pelicula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pelicula</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/tratadodeinvisibilidad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tratadodeinvisibilidad</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/lucianakaplan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lucianakaplan</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/INVISIBILITY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#INVISIBILITY</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/cleaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cleaners</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exploitation</a>

Peter RileyOutsourcing Struggles Of Hospital Cleaners At Prospect Park Hospital <a href="https://notesfrombelow.org/article/outsourcing-struggles-of-hospital-cleaners-at-pros" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://notesfrombelow.org/article/outsourcing-struggles-of-hospital-cleaners-at-pros</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VitalSigns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VitalSigns</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/healthworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthworkers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cleaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cleaners</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hospitals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hospitals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/organize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#organize</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solidarity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frombelow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#frombelow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labormovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labormovement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unions</a> vs <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/outsourcing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#outsourcing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privatisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privatisation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProspectPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProspectPark</a>

Peter RileyOn 12 June 2009, cleaning workers at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London working for the subcontractor ISS were called to an emergency "staff meeting," which was actually an ambush by immigration officers. The cleaners, members of public sector union <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UNISON" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UNISON</a>, had been organising for some time for better pay and conditions, and had recently successfully achieved <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> recognition and the London <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/livingwage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livingwage</a>. <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8412/soas-9-deportations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8412/soas-9-deportations</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cleaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cleaners</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SOAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SOAS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workingclasshistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclasshistory</a>

InfrogmationNew Orleans signage: Keep It Clean Edition. Laundries. 1) Wah Cleaners, Freret Street, 13th Ward Uptown. 2) The Clothes Spin, Rampart Street, French Quarter. (Historic!) 3) General Laundry Building St. Peter Street, Mid-City. 4) Nahborhud Washerwoman, Broadway, Friburg. Photographed by Infrogmation of New Orleans.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/noladon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@noladon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NOLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NOLA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewOrleans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/signs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#signs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/laundry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laundry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cleaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cleaners</a>

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