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...help parents better provide for their children and other dependents. We recognize that such an increase in the rate of full-time staff will cause some part-time workers to lose their jobs. While this is regrettable, it is very important that Harvard stay in good faith with its contract with janitors and help its full-time employees’ live happier lives with their families. While we opposed the tremendous raise in janitors’ pay supported by SLAM and others—a raise to $20 per hour from $13.50 per hour—our support of these...
Graduate students at New York University (NYU) set up picket lines yesterday and officially began striking to force the administration to negotiate a new contract...
...union—the only one of its kind at a private university in the country—has been demanding an audience with the administration since its original contract expired...
Markets are hard to beat and even harder to manipulate. On Dec. 11, 2003, InTrade's contract on Saddam Hussein's capture suddenly began to move. "We noticed that that contract started trading from 9 to 30 for no reason," says Mike Knesevitch, communications director. "Something was happening." In fact, someone may well have been trading on inside information. Two days later, Saddam was in custody...
...opportunity to set precedents not just as the top employer but as the best employer in Cambridge. However, Harvard has been falling behind and SLAM hopes Harvard will change its policies toward workers.” Harvard Spokesman Joe Wrinn responded that Harvard will not negotiate a contract through the press but urges more holistic considerations of its treatment of workers. “We set our wages through the collective bargaining process but it is also important to remember that total compensation includes other things besides wages, such as health care plans,” said Wrinn...