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...member HUCTW will become the largest union in private higher education. In addition, it is the latest successful organizing drive to capitalize on the unique concerns of a "pink-collar" workforce, like Harvard's quasi-professional, mostly female support staff...
Although Thompson has had a lot of experience with civil rights and minority issues, he says his "concern will be the district's needs." The 28th Middlesex district is 97 percent white, Thompson says, and mostly "middle-class, blue-collar, and students...
...Analysis Group, a Democratic polling organization, interviewed a number of typical Reagan Democrats, blue-collar workers living in the suburbs of Detroit. For these people, the term "poverty" had strict racial connotations, and attempts to alleviate poverty were interpreted as taking money from their pockets to support Blacks...
...course Harvard has a legal right to appeal Judge Harmatz's decision, just as the union had a legal right to organize and recruit the University's pink-collar employees. Thankfully, the staff position recognizes this, but goes on to make a dubious claim that the University has no moral justification for an appeal...
...been more than 60 years since a school went up in Chelsea, a crumbling city of 26,000 immigrants and blue-collar workers on Boston Harbor. Even now, with the state offering to pay 90% of the costs, the city board of aldermen refuses to spend local funds for a badly needed high school and elementary school. Language and cultural obstacles compound the system's problems: over half of the 3,300 students speak Spanish or Cambodian at home. Faced with sagging test scores and a 17% annual dropout rate, many parents and local leaders seem willing to try anything...