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...conducted from a position of weakness by the union due mainly to the fact we were taken by surprise (and therefore had to improvise a response), coupled with obvious personality conflicts. Some guards took these severance packages and went to work for Security Systems Incorporated (SSI), a non-union contractor, who could have fired them at anytime. As it happens, they are still working, at the same sites, covered by the parity agreement, without any difficulty. Some took the early retirement and left the union and the university...
HUSPMGU President Danny Meagher said he approached Harvard several months ago to discuss terms for the layoff of the remaining guards and negotiated a deal that included severance pay, retirement packages and guaranteed employment with Allied Security, Harvard’s largest security contractor...
...Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. But in a strange coincidence last week, those images, which had become so iconic that many Americans did not realize they were prohibited, resurfaced in two places. On April 18, the Seattle Times ran a photo taken by an employee of a defense contractor in Kuwait of a plane filled with coffins. The cargo worker, Tami Silicio, was promptly fired. Then Russ Kick of Tucson, Ariz., put 361 Dover photos (all from the past year, including images of the coffins of the shuttle Columbia crew) on his site, www.thememoryhole.org--having sprung them from...
Even when you add the cost of shipping--about $3,000--a building lot and contractor assembly, the final figure for an LV House would be well below the $337,000 median price for new homes in the U.S., though at 1,150 sq. ft. it's also just over half the median size of a new American home. Prefab houses can be cheaper because plumbing and wiring are laid in at the factory, which eliminates the services of plumbers and electricians on-site. Because prefabs take less time to assemble on-site than conventional houses, there are also fewer...
Last June, an optional buyout package reduced the number of workers from 17 to the current seven. At the time, University officials expressed a desire to move to a single contractor in the security sector for increased efficiency...