At least 25 families will prepare food, and parents chipped in to pay the school custodians to show up on their day off.

From 1990 to 1994, he worked as a school custodian.

He asked if the school custodian he'd brought could go down in the barge.

The case of the school custodians is a prime example.

But the school custodians are a special case; they run a system that has long defied rational control.

Under present rules, school custodians function as both city employees and independent contractors.

But instead the growing confrontation is with the school custodians, a much weaker union.

They also called on the city to reopen contract talks with the school custodians' union.

Ted Pannullo, the school custodian, is not far from retirement.

And school custodians have negotiated themselves out of responsibility for much more than routine maintenance.