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...This case saw Philip Morris attorneys adopt a new tack; they never denied the carcinogenic effects of tobacco and went so far as to admit their client "makes a dangerous product." Instead, they challenged the idea that PM is somehow responsible for an individual?s decision to smoke...
...only in late April, that the task force released a draft proposal of a permanent structure they hoped to adopt...
Nearly 50 from Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) begin a sit-in at Massachusetts Hall students to protest Harvard’s lack of a living wage. They want the university to adopt a living wage of $10.25. The protesters declare that they will remain there indefinitely until the university will agree to their demands. The sit-in follows a two-year effort by PSLM to implement a living wage...
...response to student campaign for a living wage, the Johns Hopkins administration agreed that all direct and subcontracted employees would not earn less than $7.75 per hour by 2002. While the figure was close to Baltimore? then-living wage, the University administration chose not to adopt the mandatory wage floor Baltimore city officials had defined, nor did they label their figure a ?iving wage.??his was not related to any broader city-wide ordinance or movement,?says Dennis OShea, executive director of communications and public affairs. ?e chose not to tie ourselves to a moving target. It would be irresponsible...
...study of all U.S. municipalities that have a mandatory wage floor, that for a hypothetical 50 percent increase in a living wage, wages as a whole go up three and a half percent, on average. This finding applies to low-wage workers as a whole in cities that adopt living wages, many of whom are not actually affected...