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...CAFETERIA SYSTEMS: An employer gives each worker a dollar amount to spend on a menu of benefits, including health care. The employees then face a smorgasbord of coverage--and if they choose more expensive health care, they must pay any costs above the employer's contribution...
There are three prudential levels that the University needs to consider. First, workers who sense that their employer is squeezing them beyond a widely accepted social norm will work neither efficiently nor well. Especially in cafeteria food service and janitorial work, which are not closely supervised, slowdowns and corner-cutting are easy. If I were a cashier at the Science Center, I would work with “all deliberate speed.” If you expect decent work out of people whose functions are vital to the running of the University then you must pay what is widely regarded...
With themes like “New England Clambake” and “Il Mezzorgiorno: A Visit to Southern Italy,” HUDS’ six annual festive meals are supposed to provide undergraduates a respite from typical cafeteria fare—while demonstrating “the staff’s culinary talents and sense of fun,” according to the HUDS website. As last Thursday demonstrated, however, the meals often exhibit the staff’s decorating talents rather than their culinary ones...
...School Committee meeting began, the Media Cafeteria at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School (CRLS) was packed with community members, most of whom supported the new plan...
Assisted by a student translator enlisted at the last minute, Tepepa described the oppressive conditions that she and others had suffered in the Kukdong factory. She spoke of spoiled cafeteria food, physical and psychological mistreatment at the hands of managers, and painfully low wages. Workers, mostly young women and largely single mothers, were paid only three or four pesos per day, while workers actually require 100, Tepepa said...