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Number two is that it could be a National company sales representative trying to show a local presence while seeking to make his quota in sales and commissions.

Either way this spells trouble for the consumer. You will hire the �New Owner� with a low price and no experience or knowledge. Then after about 2 hours of cleaning or after trying to strip your floors for their first time. They will be putting the equipment they bought up for sale on e-bay. Leaving a mess for me to come clean up again. Or you will find yourself buying a product that does not exist from a National Company or Franchise company. All the bells and whistles they sell you are never delivered. After two weeks all that new equipment is gone and some old stuff is in its place. You find yourself with a dirty building and you will not be able to locate the salesperson. Why? Because they have moved on to Nashville to do their dirty business. The new equipment is in the back of their van to use as a prop at the next building.

I call all of this �The Cousin Eddie Syndrome�. Like family from out of town. They show up to eat your food, eat your candy, watch you�re T.V., drink your beverages, and stay way past their welcome. Then leave your house a dirty mess for you to deal with. Hopefully you get on the phone and warn the rest of the family that Cousin Eddie is on the move.

2.      What�s in a name? We are running into a lot of �New� companies with the same old people running it. They change their company name because they have used up any credibility they had with the old one. They still have the same people. The same philosophy of sale it, skim it, and lose it. It is a cycle they continue to use because all they change is their name. All it cost them is new letterhead and business cards. But the cost to you is enormous. You have paid for services that were not performed. Those that were performed like the stripping and waxing of your VCT. You now wish they had not done them.

3. Franchises like Coverall, JanPro, JaniKing are not in the cleaning business, they are in the franchise selling business and many of those franchisees are now in court suing these franchise companies.  Check the Federal Trade Commission reports on on-going class action lawsuits against these companies.

It is a shame and a disgrace to the cleaning industry to have things like this going on. You can help us in this effort to bring credibility back to this industry. Along with fair pricing for the work you ask to have performed. You can help by contracting only with companies that have a proven track record over many years. Contract with a company that has �Local� references. Contract with a company that will work out a fair and equitable cost for their services.  Contract with a company that will be here today, tomorrow, and next year. We have been here for over 20 years with the same name, same owner, same standards today as we had 20 years ago.  

 I report these things to you to help you make a good decision. You or your company has spent a lot of money for your facility. You deserve to have a hard working company look after it for you. Shouldn�t you have a company that looks after your building like they own it? Shouldn�t you be more than an account number for some company in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Dallas, Atlanta, and oh yes the �UPS� store? Or just being a sales goal and commission for a salesman? We say yes you should be. That is why you need a company like ours. We look after your property like we own it.

Mike Underwood 
Owner  

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Immigration raid ousts 1,200 illegal janitors!

MINNEAPOLIS � Last month, 1,200 illegal immigrant janitors working for ABM Janitorial Services were fired after U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) put pressure on the company to provide proof of the janitors' right to work in the United States, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

 

According to the story, The non-profit Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota was called in by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the union representing the illegals, to give workers legal advice.

 

The SEIU worked with ABM Janitorial and ICE to give employees more time to show proper documents; each Monday, another batch of workers who failed to show proper documentation was fired, the story stated.

 

ABM Janitorial, which, for whatever reason, has not been fined regarding this ordeal, has filled the open positions, the story noted.

 

Many are concerned over the apparent soft action by the current administration because, unlike previous raids where undocumented workers were arrested and deported, the 1,200 janitors found to be working illegally were neither detained nor arrested, leaving them free to enter the American workforce again, the story added.

 

Mark Cangemi, a retired ICE official, said: "Why give people an opportunity to leave the employment without taking any action against them as individuals? Put them into proceedings. Let them argue their case. If they have a case that allows them to remain in the United States under the law, so be it. If they don't, then the law stands to be enforced."

 

Click here to read the complete article. (External link)

 

 

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