STATE HOUSE — MBTA janitors and their supporters protested planned layoffs Thursday, occupying the lobby and hallway outside Gov. Charlie Baker's office and filling the State House with the sound of chanting and singing on an otherwise quiet August day.
"Everybody's for running a system efficiently, but we don't believe letting the MBTA stations be trashed is anything related to efficiency," said Eugenio Villasante, a spokesman for the union representing the roughly 300 T janitors, SEIU 32BJ. He said, "Who in Boston thinks the T stations are super clean? Most riders would say we need more and not less cleaners."
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Dean Green supports Donald Trump partly because of the GOP presidential nominee's tough, deport-them-all stance on illegal immigration. But the 57-year-old Republican paused as he complained about U.S. immigration policy and acknowledged that deporting all 11 million people in the U.S. illegally would separate families.
