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Students benefited from the experience, size and credibility of unions. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney’s speech outside the sit-in to thousands of students, media and workers mobilized from throughout the area was national news...
...dragged on last spring and administrators still refused to negotiate with protesters, help came in the form of AFL-CIO General Counsel, Jon Hiatt, who played a significant role in negotiating the deal with Harvard that brought the students out of the building...
Hiatt says that then-University president Neil L. Rudenstine placed a “courtesy call” to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney...
...test his style, and the hard-charging Spitzer is now making many wonder if Pitt isn't plain soft. "The SEC under Harvey Pitt has been something of a reluctant regulator," says John Coffee, professor of securities law at Columbia University. Damon Silvers, associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO, which has been carping about analyst abuses for a year, says, "The SEC was a little late to this party." In the end, Pitt's survival doesn't mean much to investors. What they need is evidence that the game isn't rigged...
...fall, says he also appreciates the resource. But he’s not interested in collective bargaining at the moment. “Right now I feel like more a member of a club with tight music and talented people rather than something along the lines of the AFL-CIO arguing for higher wages and better hours,” he says...