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...workers weren’t individually on their payroll, it had no responsibility for their working conditions or wages. It’s not six degrees, but the separation was enough to for Harvard to wash its hands of its workers (except when it used them as a bargaining chip to reduce the wages of its in-house employees). As Harvard economist Richard Freeman wrote recently in The New York Times, “Many employers use contractors for low-wage work to avoid being responsible for what they know are abysmal wages, benefits and working conditions. One could accurately...
...agree with the HCECP and with Summers’ recent statements that collective bargaining is an appropriate means of setting the terms and conditions of employment. However, we do not believe that the living wage should be a bargaining chip in union negotiations. Harvard’s workers should never be placed in a position of trading away other benefits in order to obtain minimally adequate wages. Harvard should safeguard employees’ living standards by adopting a living wage...
...expansion again. And the "new orders" component for the month, the most forward-looking part of the report, actually rose above that crucial halfway point. And semiconductors, the commodity to watch for tech's 2002 fortunes, also got a good grade Wednesday when the Semiconductor Industry Association said that chip sales rose 1.6 percent in November to $10.6 billion...
...couldn't do a thing to bring him back to life. Nearly every night of their four-year marriage, they had walked down to the Sedutto ice cream parlor on the corner. He always ordered mint chocolate chip in a cup; she got sugar-free, fat-free frozen yogurt. Mike had suddenly lost his taste for ice cream. "I'm just trying to be a little healthier," he would tell her whenever she suggested taking up the old routine. At a late-September reunion of her family, he seemed slightly more animated talking with her father and male cousins...
...hear something is “gyroscope-powered.” Some of these people, unlike me, can afford to spend $3,000 on gyroscopes, and they will scoop Segways up faster than authentic Klingon food at a Star Trek convention. The real question for Kamen and his blue chip investors—and for the American pedestrian, who may never feel safe on sidewalks again—is whether the Segway will become a truly mainstream product, taking the world by storm the way people like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs think it will...