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...courses on paid time. And in the wake of the Living Wage campaign, it’s keeping pace on lower-end salaries. But the concerns raised by PSLM remain salient for many of Harvard’s unionized employees, who fear losing their jobs to outsourced competition. Others complain that Harvard leaves them out to dry in the summer, when their services are not needed and they are left without work or unemployment insurance. Further, workers say, it’s the employees on the middle rungs of the pay scale who are feeling the crunch...
Employees who earn higher salaries are not without substantial gripes of their own, and complain that their struggles have been ignored by a University preoccupied with placating its lower-end workers after the public relations debacle of the sit-in. And while English courses are an affordable aid to some workers, addressing many mid-level employees’ complaints could prove a much more expensive—and less palatable—venture...
Over many a meal of sticky rice and General Wong chicken, students at Harvard have griped about what’s wrong with this place. And to be sure, it’s not difficult to find things to complain about. There are mutterings about how we’re not getting the “quintessential college experience,” how students here are blinded by their ambition, how no one “hangs out” here. Then there’s the core, student-faculty interaction and the incessantly awful weather...
...boon may be coming soon for both companies: US Airways, which just emerged from bankruptcy protection, has announced that it is negotiating with them and anticipates placing "a significant order in the near future." Other airlines are expected to follow suit as their pilots' unions--which complain that regional-jet pilots earn about one-fourth as much as large-jet pilots--reluctantly agree to relax the ceiling on the number of regional jets the airlines can use. That's just the kind of small thinking the regional-jet rivals need to hear. --With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo, Robert Brehl...
...boon may be coming soon for both companies: US Airways, which just emerged from bankruptcy protection, has announced that it is negotiating with them and anticipates placing "a significant order in the near future." Other airlines are expected to follow suit as their pilots' unions - which complain that regional-jet pilots earn about one-fourth as much as large-jet pilots - reluctantly agree to relax the ceiling on the number of regional jets the airlines can use. That's just the kind of small thinking the regional-jet rivals need to hear...