Word: groupe
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Harvard now signs a contract with the outsourcing agency, not a group that represents the workers. It then gives the outsourcer the responsibility of managing and paying the workforce, in order to wash its hands of often acrimonious negotiations, as well as perhaps to improve living-wage statistics while polishing up the bottom line. Though the UNICCO janitors do have a union--a separate bargaining unit in the same SEIU Local 254 where the Harvard-payroll janitors are members--their agreements must be made with UNICCO, not Harvard. Come Nov. 1, the other group of janitors may join that list...
...Increased female tenures] can only happen over time because of the dynamics of demographics," Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 told a group of Radcliffe alumnae several weeks ago. "To think otherwise is delusional...
...placed on suspension by MIT on Sept. 22, effectively banning SAE members from participating in school events as a group...
...traded questions with the voters: "How old are your children?" to a mother. "What age group do you teach?" to a high school instructor...
Last week, two roads diverged for universities interested in ending sweatshops. The national student umbrella group, United Students Against Sweatshops, released the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), an outline of principles for university monitoring of overseas garment factories. The WRC calls for full public disclosure of locations and wage information of all factories producing college clothing. It also mandates the establishment of a small non-profit monitoring body responsible for responding to worker complaints. These principles represent a clear break from those currently held by the government and industry-sponsored Fair Labor Association (FLA), which would rely on classified, corporate audits...