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Article: Threat of UCLA laundry facility closure prompts protest
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- May 1, 2000
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Benjamin Parke
University Wire
05-01-2000
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- About 100 demonstrators marched to Murphy Hall on Friday evening -- making it known that they think UCLA is washing its hands of responsibility for the people who work in the hospital's laundry facility.
One of the people in the procession, which wound its way from Westwood Plaza to the building housing Chancellor Albert Carnesale's office, was 56-year-old Maria Martinez. She works at UCLA's laundry facility in Culver City, making $6.40 an hour with no benefits.
In addition to four grandchildren, Martinez has a daughter who is struggling financially to attend Mount St. Mary's College.
"It's very expensive and I ...