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...allowed to unionize for the first time since the University outsourced their jobs two years ago, a change that signals a hard-fought victory for the guards and student activists.AlliedBarton, the contractor that employs Harvard’s security guards, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reached the agreement permitting the guards to organize last Friday.“The parties have reached an understanding in principle for a fair process by which the officers at Harvard can decide whether or not to become represented by the SEIU,” AlliedBarton spokesman Larry Rubin said yesterday...
...proximity to the U.S. and from imitating its business culture. (The Dallas Cowboys count about 1,400 Monterrey fans as season-ticket holders.) They also bulked up on Mexico's earlier import-substitution policies, which positioned them well for the challenges and opportunities when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force in January 1994. The lion's share of $200 billion of foreign investment that has rolled in since then--two-thirds from the U.S.--went to the north, both to maquiladora assembly operations in border towns and to Monterrey and nearby Saltillo, also known as Little...
Finally in April 2001, after a public relations debacle for the university, Yale and Bristol-Myers Squibb reached an agreement to allow generic distribution of Zerit in the developing world...
...license agreement does not contain a provision ensuring that developing-world HIV patients will have access to the drug, according to Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, an activist group with chapters at 32 campuses, including Harvard...
Harvard’s agreement with Medicine in Need inches the University closer toward at least two of the group’s recommendations: that universities forgo their royalties to bring about discounts in developing nations, and that they partner with third-party organizations to help with drug development and distribution...