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...increase wages, stop outsourcing, and respect workers’ right to organize. Wages should be increased to at least $20 per hour, full-time employment should be increased to at least 60 percent, and outsourced workers should have the same benefits and wages as direct employees. Some view the demand for a wage of $20 per hour as too high. However, this demand is neither rhetorical nor inflated. A September report from the Economic Policy Institute ranked Boston as the most expensive city in the nation. In 2004, a family of four in Boston required...
...odds over potential wage hikes.During yesterday’s negotiations, Harvard put forward a six-year agreement that would gradually increase janitors’ starting wage to $17 per hour, according to union officials.But Harvard’s proposal falls short of the union’s last demand, for a raise in the starting wage to $19.50 over five years. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615, represents most of Harvard’s janitors. Under the agreement between the University and the union set to expire today, custodial employees in their first three years at Harvard...
...profession was officially abolished along with other "feudal" trades after the Communists came to power in 1949, and baobiao, the Chinese word for bodyguard, retains a tinge of ill-repute. Because of this political legacy, the industry still occupies a legal gray area, but bodyguards are now in such demand that the top earners can make $5,000 a month. "As China's economy develops, safety problems will increase, and that means businesses like ours will continue to grow," says Li Hongqi, whose recently established Beijing firm supplies the man who shadows Li Jianguo...
...here, administrators have an enormous opportunity to reach out to a campus institution, a move that would also garner good will among the student population. At the very least, the University should make it a priority to improve House grilles and brain breaks. There is clearly enormous demand for a later-closing Felipe’s—a petition last year drew 2,600 signatures. It’s not as if our much-loved Mexican restaurant would be the first establishment to be open into the early morning. In fact, there are businesses in Harvard Square that...
Comparing the apparent levels of demand for each figure—one of the most prominent authors of our time, versus, in a friend’s words, “a washed-up, has-been reggae star”—one might conclude that the UC simply misjudged student tastes when deciding who to invite to campus...