Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...costs in an era of exponentially exploding tuition prices, we wonder about the ramifications of current trends in the job market. As the power and influence of unions wane due to the competition with cheap labor at home and abroad, many workers are forced to accept increasingly less generous contracts. The new contract for Local 254, Harvard's union of custodial workers, is a case in point: older workers are offered more attractive early retirement plans to make room for new employees who will be paid far less. It's no wonder that income inequality is steadily increasing in America...
...long been evidence that the company discriminates in its hiring and promotion policies, most notably based on a 1991 finding for $17.6 million to a California woman passed over for promotion in favor of a male colleague, as well as a 1995 reprimand by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs for unfair employment practices at Texaco's Houston facility. The company's shareholders have had ample time to realize that there is something shady about Texaco's practices, yet they have chosen to do nothing. Divestment is never a decision to be made lightly, but the evidence has become...
With almost 5,000 Harvard employees associated with the University's eight unions, labor organizers and contract negotiators have their hands full...
...late September, union members approved a new three-year contract which many employees said they had never seen in its entirety...
...contract brought the wages of Harvard's custodial workers in line with the market, according to Timothy R. Manning, director of labor relations...