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...fight for better wages, and the Undergraduate Council (UC) voted in favor of the “Resolution in Support of Workers at Harvard.” Last year, over 1,150 students filled out comment cards demanding that dining hall workers receive fair treatment in their June 2006 contract negotiations...
Harvard security officers are now in the process of negotiating their first contract as members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615. Although we are thrilled that they now have the opportunity to bargain, their campaign for a better workplace will not be over until an acceptable contract is signed and implemented. And even after this process, the sustainability of such a contract will be very much contingent on the continued strength of the union and support from the Harvard community...
...last semester was a great step forward for the nation-wide movement. Nevertheless, Harvard should not take this victory, and sit idly by as AlliedBarton and security officers negotiate, but instead it should exert its tremendous influence to guarantee that AlliedBarton agrees to and implements a fair and just contract...
...baseball's economics thrive, more teams can afford high-profile players to fill the DH spot: the Toronto Blue Jays can sign Frank Thomas, who hit 39 home runs for Oakland last season, to a two-year, $18 million contract, and Oakland can give Mike Piazza one-year, $8.5 million deal to replace him. The result is a concentration of DH talent the game has never seen before. "It's unusual," says veteran Texas Rangers scout Mel Didier. "You usually have two or three of those Hall of Fame caliber guys, but seven or eight...
...colleague went on to say that the problem is most evident in Iraq. Today in Baghdad a private contracting company, which I will leave unnamed, decides where CIA officers can go and whom they can see. This may sound like inside baseball to a lot of people, but what it means is the contractor is in charge, essentially determining who the CIA's sources are. And the contractor makes no bones about it: his goal is to hold on to his contract, not whether the CIA gets Iraq right...