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Gettelfinger also said the new agreement includes the job security guarantees sought by the union and predicted GM's employment level will remain constant over the four-year term of the contract. The lack of guarantees from GM on job security triggered the strike Monday, Gettelfinger said shortly after the walkout began. The job-security guarantees are expected to include firm commitments to build future GM products, including the electric-powered Chevrolet Volt, in the United States. Some observers have speculated, however, that the job-security walkout was merely a cover for the more far-reaching and sensitive health care...
...says Robinson. “I feel like I struggled a bit in high school with racial issues, and it’s important to know someone else went through something much larger than me, and I was only following his footsteps.” In addition to four-year financial aid, the foundation organizes several leadership and mentoring programs throughout the year. Christina M. Gibbs ’08, a Jackie Robinson Scholar, has gone with Robinson to the networking weekend held every year in New York. This consists of career seminars, resume workshops, group activities, and, needless...
...says, is the one that Beijing is presenting to the outside world. But within China, he says, conditions are worse than ever. "It's a policy of 'soft to the outside, strict within,'" says Hu. He recently hosted the wife of blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who is serving a four-year sentence ostensibly for disrupting traffic but almost certainly because of the embarrassment he caused the government of Shandong province by publicizing cases of forced sterilizations and abortions by family-planning officials. After escaping from house arrest in Shandong, Yuan Weijing spent nearly a month holed...
...University,” Tillman said in a statement. “My educational and athletic backgrounds have given me a tremendous respect for the Ivy League experience. We are going to recruit outstanding student-athletes and I look forward to positively impacting Harvard.” Tillman, a four-year assistant coach at Ithaca College before joining the Navy staff, assumes his new role with the Crimson immediately. He replaces Scott Anderson, who stepped down as head coach after 20 years earlier this month to become an assistant director of athletics at Harvard. Anderson, who has known Tillman...
...reading The Art of War, students would be studying the Federalist papers and learning how to transform a failing public school. Conceived by two former Teach for America corps members, Chris Myers Asch and Shawn Raymond, the U.S. Public Service Academy would give undergraduates a four-year education in exchange for a five-year commitment to public service after they graduate. The idea is to provide a focused education for people who will serve in the public sector - either the federal, state or local government - and thereby create a new generation of civic leaders. Asch and Raymond were so dismayed...