Janitors' Blues

A painful pay cut for AAPS custodians

by Eve Silberman

posted 6/10/2010

While Ann Arbor's teachers negotiate a proposed 4 percent pay cut, the district's custodians quietly agreed to give up twice that much.

AFSCME negotiator DeAngelo Malcolm says he believes that "Everybody should take an equal hit." But the union saw no choice but to swallow an 8 percent pay cut--

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