April 29, 2011 Bedbugs: Bring 'em on! ... Bed products that keep bedbugs out ... Three years ago, bedbugs were threatening the bottom line of bedding accessories company Cadence Keen Innovations ... now they are boosting it ... "If our customers are in trouble, we're in trouble," said Steven Gordon, the company's president ...
May 12, 2011 Researchers in Canada have found bedbugs carrying antibiotic-resistant superbugs ... a surprise finding because scientists had thought the pests were not capable of spreading infections ... [researchers] found bedbugs carrying two types of drug-resistant bacteria, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA] and vancomycin-resistant enterococci ...
May 12, 2011 When she isn't sidelined by an injury, Nenita Ibe cleans 16 rooms a day at the Santa Clara hotel ... last week Ibe headed to Sacramento to testify in favor of a bill that would force the state's hotels to ditch their traditional flat bedsheets in favor of the fitted elastic sheets ... bill was sponsored by state Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) ...
May 17, 2011 Just remember that a certain someone makes this bed look so good ... Things are getting dirty in Chicago ... Nearly 400 housekeepers staged a three-hour work "stoppage" ... The housekeepers ... were protesting their growing workload (specifically with hotel bedding) and this little thing called an expired contract ...
