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...Almost all provide superior service. Their sales staffs know their products and customers well and stock what the locals want. They emphasize convenience and make things easy to find. Some choose specialties in which they can excel, whether it's children's books or saltwater fish. And many now employ more sophisticated pricing strategies...
...total softy. Not anymore." Whereas last year Duke often accepted excuses fortardiness or fighting, now she quickly doles out suspensions to troublemakers in the school's upper grades. The toughened-up principal sees herself as enforcer of Victory's policies, demanding lesson plans on time, pushing teachers to employ the new methods and cracking down on faculty absences and lateness. "I had the bar toolow," says Duke. "Sometimes you just get worn down by dealing with the same problem over and over again, and it helps to have someone else say, 'That is not acceptable.' And you think...
...three weeks, marching through the streets of Boston every night demanding justice. These janitors belong to the same union as the janitors who clean Harvard’s buildings and who won a better contract last winter after a protracted struggle with the Harvard administration. Many of them are employed by the same companies that employ Harvard’s outsourced janitors. Earning only $39 a night, with no health care and no sick days, they face the same abhorrent conditions Harvard workers have faced in the past (and still often face today). These mainly immigrant janitors deserve living wages...
Harvard must use its extensive ties with UNICCO to pressure the company to agree to the janitors’ reasonable demands. Harvard should recognize that health care is a human right that must be provided by employers. If UNICCO refuses, then Harvard has an obligation to cut its contract with UNICCO. As was negotiated in the Harvard janitors’ contract last winter, all janitors would retain their jobs were this to happen. The practice of subcontracting is generally harmful to workers, and it has always been a demand of the Living Wage Campaign that Harvard discontinue this practice. Rather...
...honored to have begun this partnership and look forward to working together to employ educational resources and international bridge building to help the Armenian people into a new era of independence, freedom, and prosperity,” Nye said...