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When a U.S. alternative energy company signed a technology license contract last month to enable China's largest coal company to build a $2 billion plant to liquefy coal in Inner Mongolia it may have been sealing the future of OPEC. If the technology lives up to its promise and can economically transform coal into diesel and gasoline it may tip the geopolitical scales by reducing the dependence on oil of coal-rich countries like China, the U.S. and Germany. At the same time it could significantly decrease pollution blamed for global warming and acid rain. Many countries...
Overall, wages for cash ops employees cumulatively increase from 22 percent to 36 percent over the three-year life of the contract...
After University President Lawrence H. Summers’ acceptance of HCECP’s recommendations, the contract for HUDS workers was reopened and the final agreement was reached last month...
...union and PSLM regret that that one spot in the wage agreement remains below the city-determined living wage. In the first year of the contract, kitchen utility workers who have been employed at HUDS for less than one year will receive $10.85 per hour, which is within the range the HCECP recommended but below the Cambridge living wage of $11.11 per hour...
With the first month of the new contract coming to a close this week, Childs said he has seen the positive effects of the wage increases...