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...example, subcontracted janitors working at CGIS are currently without health insurance. The subcontractor, Eurest Services, has not found a new provider since discontinuing its current services, according to Service Employees International Union Local 615 organizer Daniel Brasil Becker...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Workers Advocates March on Yard | 4/30/2010 | See Source »

...Bedardo Sola, a staffer who was laid off and then rehired by Harvard subcontractor ABM OneSource, spoke to the crowd in Spanish. Daniel Brasil Becker, a representative for the Service Employees International Union Local 1615, interpreted Sola’s remarks...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students and Staff Rally For Budget Say | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...needs some help. The Brazilian embassy normally pays for between 10 and 15 repatriations each year, but in the last few months it has already paid for about 40. Since last September, Carlos Zaha has seen many in his Hamamatsu community lose their jobs. In December, he helped start Brasil Fureai, or "Contact Brazil," an association to help unemployed Brazilian residents find jobs. He's thankful to the Japanese government for the offer of assisted repatriation, but says the decision will be a rough one for workers. "I don't think [the government] thought this through well," Zaha says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan to Immigrants: Thanks, But You Can Go Home Now | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

Despite the diversity of interests represented at the rally, Director of SEIU Local 615 Daniel Brasil Becker said he believed their goal was unified...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students, Staff Protest Potential Layoffs | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...those involved, including the 9-year-old's distraught mother. Even Catholic Brazilians were shocked at the harshness of the archbishop's actions. "In this case, most people support the doctors and the family. Everything they did was legal and correct," says Beatriz Galli, the policy associate for Ipas Brasil, an NGO that fights to give women more say over their health and reproductive rights. "But the Church takes these positions that are so rigid that it ends up weakened. It is very intolerant, and that intolerance is going to scare off more and more followers." (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine-Year-Old's Abortion Outrages Brazil's Catholic Church | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

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