The State - News from Feb. 5, 1986
Custodians at Porterville State Hospital have begun wearing orange armbands to protest Gov. George Deukmejian’s plan to turn their tasks over to a private janitorial service. About 20 of the hospital’s 87 custodians met and chose the armbands as a way to express their opposition to the proposal in the 1986-87 state budget.
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