
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) ... last week, de Leon's bill made it out of the state Senate's labor committee ... Robert Harrison, a doctor of occupational medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, testified that the "repetitive and forceful exertion" of bedmaking and other duties makes hotel maids more susceptible to lower-back and shoulder injuries than most workers in manufacturing jobs ...