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Nike, predictably, criticized our visit as unhelpful. In retrospect, we did not even need the factory visit. With the help of some Indonesian students, we spoke with scores of workers and did some rudimentary "faux bargaining" calculations. Had the workers won a meager seniority clause increase of 15 cents per worker per day for each year of seniority, a worker with four years' experience would earn $1.70 a day, instead of $1.10. This does not sound like much money, but in this huge factory, it would cost the contractor $10,000 a day! No wonder the vast majority of Nike...
...York University's decision this week to appeal a landmark ruling in favor of graduate student unionization means the National Labor Relations Board will soon set a country-wide standard for whether graduate students at private universities can collectively bargain...
...graduate students persuaded a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)--the federal agency that mediates relations between workers and employers--to recognize their right to collectively bargain...
Last year, a Yale protest to a TA strike resulted in an NLRB decision not to allow Yale graduate students to bargain collectively...
What we're just beginning to understand is how water development has, like nuclear energy, amounted to a Faustian bargain between civilization and the natural world--which, as it happens, supports civilization. Hydroelectricity from Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State smelted enough aluminum during World War II to build tens of thousands of warplanes, with enough surplus power to make plutonium for the first atom bombs. But now, in the form of devastated salmon fisheries, Grand Coulee (along with countless other dams) is extracting an awful price for its creation...