more sustainable solutions, according to a press release. The companies are launching a six-month pilot program where Northern Colorado Paper will “take back” RCP products that have reached the end of their useful life and then transport them to the local Waste Management materi-als recovery facility in Denver for recy-cling, the release stated. Robert Dishman, director of Waste Management Inc., said: “As a leading North American recycler, weʼre pleased to partner with an industry leader such as RCP in this grassroots recycling pro-gram. This pilot program with NCP is a natural fit for us — it fits our sustainabili-ty mission and lends itself to our goal to increase both recycling and recovery rates nationwide.” Having arguably the most favor-able climate organized labor has seen in recent years, union lead-ers sought to set aside their political differ-ences and work together toward their com-mon goals of job security, better health cov-erage and higher wages: September 17, 2009—PITTSBURGH— The Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees-Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (UNITE-HERE) is severing ties with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Change To Win by rejoining the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) after a bitter dispute divided them four years ago, according to the Associated Press. The decision of UNITE-HERE to rejoin the AFL-CIO comes one day after Richard Trumka became the newest AFL-CIO president, the story stated. UNITE-HERE has been feuding inter-nally, itself the product of a merger between two smaller unions whose leaders could no longer get along, caus-ing about 150,000 of its members to leave earlier this year, the story noted. year that the Great Recession hit. The cleaning industry, once thought by many as recession-proof, was anything but. We covered countless stories of compa-ny downsizings, mass layoffs and wide-spread outsourcing. Though these events may not have directly affected everyone, their fallout had an influential impact on us all. Building service contractors and in-house cleaners found ways to cut corners and, not surprisingly, buildings didnʼt fall to the ground from practices such as skip clean-ing or day cleaning to save labor and ener-gy usage. What have you learned from 2009? And, can those lessons carry your operation through good and bad times? CM Lessons Learned In 2009 History may consider 2009 the Circle Product Information no. 205 on page 32 CM B2B Trade Group ™ Directory 2010 9
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